Otis Sanford says the dispute between Mayor Lee Harris and County Commissioner Mark Billingsley seems to portend the year ahead for politics in Shelby County.

The Council Scorecard follows the saga of a used car lot in Raleigh that has come to symbolize the complexity of trying to move toward less-intense commercial development on major roads that have neighborhoods just behind them.

Ridgeway Trace shopping center operates at a prime junction for Memphis retail: Interstate 240 and Poplar. The property changed hands this week.

The board also approved zoning variances for a Georgia-based developer that plans to build affordable housing complexes in the North Poplar neighborhood near Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. 

All the property within the vast, old Memphis Army Distribution Depot has been sold to private owners, so the public board overseeing the site was to have been dissolved Wednesday. But neighbors’ concerns delayed the action. 

Collierville’s mayor and aldermen took steps towards its next fire station and operating its own ambulance service.

“Stay true to what you do and try not to worry about the outside factors,” Tigers defensive line coach Kyle Pope said. 

Decision on masking mandate rests with the county mayor’s office. Aside from a tweet endorsing the CDC guidelines Wednesday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris refused comment.

Jennifer Biggs: A follow-up tip for last week’s apple cake; a visit to an Uptown brewery; My Favorite Things comes back this week after a visit to Dory and Slim Chickens hired errybody.

Jennifer Biggs: “It’s the best time of the year to eat local, we talk about tomato pies, quiche, beer — and this: Do grownups eat cereal?”

As of 5 p.m. July 21, there were 162 COVID-19 positive people in area hospital beds.

The National Civil Rights Museum plans to mark its 30th anniversary in late September with a “community celebration.”

Though the school announced Wednesday it would be adding new outdoor seating options for the upcoming season, there’s a much larger vision.

Eastbound traffic will resume by Monday, Aug. 2, and westbound lanes will reopen Friday, Aug. 6. Crews will continue some work on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge even after the span across the Mississippi River resumes.

Robert Machen has been named chief information officer for Prospero Health, which runs its operational headquarters in Memphis.

As the Tigers experienced last season, a COVID outbreak can potentially setback a season.

Stripers’ starter shuts down baseball’s hottest team.

A comprehensive traffic study is planned for incorporated Cordova, but crime was the main topic of discussion Tuesday evening. 

The sites are for future schools, looking 15 to 20 years down the road, Superintendent Ted Horrell said. 

One Beale’s developer unveiled the final renderings for the 20-story, $190 million Grand Hyatt Hotel. Construction is to start early next year.

The County Commission will soon have a panel of five to advise on ethics. One commissioner warns it could be seen as conflicting with the ongoing special prosecutor’s investigation into a 2019 grant proposed by Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr.

Brent Taylor says the County Commission decision to take its own bids on a new voting system “effectively bypasses” the Election Commission and “doesn’t indicate a willingness to work cooperatively.”

George Thomas III, named preseason Class 5A all-state, is getting noticed even as SCS teams weren’t allowed to play last season.