After months of frustration, the Tigers’ performance against Wichita State was reason to exhale. 

A bill by Rep. Steve Cohen would remove the name of the late segregationist congressman Clifford Davis from Memphis’ Downtown federal building and courthouse.

The new site will be the first in Shelby County outside of Memphis.

The plan was outlined in a Thursday State of the City speech by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. Strickland also outlined two violent crime intervention programs.

The new president also is seeking to expand testing and vaccine availability, with the goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office.

Legislators passed four bills Thursday, Jan. 21, during the third day of a special education session amid protests from Democrats, education advocates and at least one Republican.

“We want to remind people that we saw that it was necessary to change the health directive in response to changes we are seeing in the data,” Dr. Bruce Randolph said. “We are making progress. There is a downward trend in a lot of our metrics.”

Union workers have fought for increased wages at the University of Memphis for several years.

The NBA has postponed the Grizzlies’ next three games due to unavailable players and contact tracing. 

Memphis won’t play again until the Jan. 27 game against the Chicago Bulls.