WKNO may face Trump cuts, the Real ID deadline is this week and we take a look inside the “River of Time.”

In the latest installment of “Ask the Memphian,” we try to answer why Memphis seems to be overrun with temporary tags on cars. But it’s not just a Memphis problem.

When Tom Lee arrived on the Memphis riverfront May 9, 1925, the morning after that long night, he began encountering people who already knew his name and knew the bravery of what he’d done.

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Here’s a look at what was happening in Memphis in May of 1925 as an engineers’ convention, that included a riverboat cruise south on the Mississippi River, met in Downtown Memphis.

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A decade after the meeting, an unbylined column in The Commercial Appeal offered a reason behind Tom Lee’s decision to cut short his visit to the nation’s capital.

Also happening this week: The Shelby County Commission meets on Monday, but a planned budget talk at the meeting has been delayed.

The Shelby County Republican Party is hoping having partisan primaries in school board races will help them crawl back to relevancy in the Democratic-dominated county, even if they have little chance of winning some races.

Two ethics proposals return to the Shelby County Commission Monday. County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., who faces criminal charges himself, is accusing others of wrongdoing.

A headstone in Mt. Carmel Cemetery shows Tom Lee was born Feb. 18, 1885, and died April 1, 1952. Between those two dates, Lee mostly lived in Memphis.

100 years after the M.E. Norman capsized and Tom Lee rescued 32 people, The Daily Memphian tells the story of the disaster, Tom Lee and how the story has faded and returned to prominence in recent years.

On May 8, 1925, about 100 years ago, a steamboat capsized in the Mississippi River — a disaster that forced dozens of men, women and children to fight for their life against the current until a brave Memphian, a veteran river worker, reached out to help. 

Calvary Episcopal Church will celebrate the reconstruction of its 1935 Aeolian-Skinner organ, which was nearly silenced by the 2023 theft of its pipes.

Defense counsel rested Saturday, May 3, concluding proof in the Tyre Nichols state trial. 

Don Cameron, who also testified in the federal trial for the officers last year, agreed there are limitations to his testimony in that he was not present for Tyre Nichols’ initial traffic stop or later beating.

“There never was a case for removal or even investigation in the first place, and you don’t have to take my word for that,” Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy said on WKNO-TV’s “Behind The Headlines.”

Jared Zwickey, an expert in police training, said Tyre Nichols actively resisted arrest despite repeated blows, but the kicks and punches delivered to him were excessive.

Public broadcasting has been threatened in the past, but local ties have largely enabled the stations to escape cutbacks — legislators don’t want to be seen as responsible for shutting them down. The current threat is seen as the most serious in the system’s history.

A forensic consultant and use-of-force expert offered testimony in Day 5 of the state criminal trial for the three former officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols.

Clayborn Temple suffers more loss, Republicans want partisan school-board elections and the Grand Carousel at CMOM is a time machine.

Jeannine Barganier’s father ran the ride in the 1940s, met his wife between the soaring horses and passed its magic to the next four generations. 

Due to a delay in collecting the increased car-registration fee, a county clerk misstep cost the city more than expected. Plus, there’s no money for Mud Island amphitheater renovation this year.

The Shelby County Republican Party executive committee didn’t want partisan primaries in school board races two years ago, but Thursday’s vote went the other way.

Thursday afternoon’s testimony in the trial of three former police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols included two witnesses: a forensic pathologist and one of the EMTs who treated Nichols on the scene.

The collapse complicates efforts to preserve some part of the historic church that went up in flames April 28.