It’s peak spring this Saturday, with events galore scheduled. 

Colleagues remember Judge Skahan, third-graders will get retested and HighTee golf lounges adds, um, high tea.

The Tennessee State Board of Education is among at least five state boards that appoint members in alignment with the congressional map. 

NBA teams spend half a season subtly selling losing as long-term investment — while asking fans to still show up and pay — only for the reward to be a 30-minute television product sandwiched between Taco Bell and State Farm commercials.

“We have specific needs, and we need a representative in Congress that can speak to those needs,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young told The Daily Memphian Thursday.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee also signed several more bills related to redistricting.

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Taylor said he would “fight to cement Tennessee’s conservative legacy for generations to come.”

For some students, improved scores could excuse them from summer school and tutoring interventions required by a state reading retention law.

The 30 state Democrats all wore white Thursday in a silent protest supporting voting rights.

“We’ve been campaigning hard since the filing deadline ... and that’s a First Amendment violation, so there will be a lawsuit in state court,” Cohen said. 

Lawmakers passed a new congressional map that split Shelby County into three different congressional districts, less than a week after Gov. Bill Lee called for a special session on the matter.

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Longtime local attorney and former judge Gerald Skahan has died. He was 61.

The man accused of shooting an MPD officer in February has been caught, court records show.

On Tuesday, May 5, Shelby County went to the primary polls, winnowing down wide fields in races for county mayor, county clerk and sheriff.

The vacancy left by G.A. Hardaway is filled, a new chatbot has moved into Grok’s house and Collierville is giving up on X.

Kyle Petty, his dad Richard “The King” Petty and several others taking part in the Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America held a fan event at the Guest House at Graceland.

At least one local elected official hinted at what they might consider if the new congressional district map passes.

“Why are (lawmakers) afraid of having to work for everyone’s vote?” asked a Memphis community organizer as people across the state and beyond came to protest a Republican-led effort to redraw the state’s congressional map.

Primary elections in Shelby County draw the lowest voter turnout. Considering that, overall turnout in Tuesday’s election was higher than expected.

TJ Hardaway heads to Nashville to take his seat in the state House for an anticipated Thursday vote on a Republican plan to redraw the boundaries of the state’s nine Congressional districts.

Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity. 

A close-up of Shelby County, obtained by The Daily Memphian and shared by legislators on social media, shows that most of Memphis’ municipal limits appear to be split roughly three ways. The map still does not include streets, precincts or municipal boundaries. 

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The map would make all nine of Tennessee’s seats Republican-leaning districts.

Historically, West Tennessee has been known for commodity crops such as soy, corn and especially cotton. But in recent years, an increasing number of area farmers have started growing specialty crops — like peaches — because they’re more profitable per acre.

Shooting breaks out in Cooper-Young, Carolina Watershed may get a new life and we’ve got the opening lineup for Crosstown’s new music venue.