On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the two-time Democratic nominee for the Tennessee General Assembly talks about the new Latino Democratic political action committee Fuerza, for which she serves on the board.
Most educators agree reading instruction in the earliest grades should include phonics, but that’s where the disagreements begin.
Our favorite images feature the outdoors, except for a picture of barbecue but hey, it’s barbecue and this is Memphis so we roll with it.
A MPD officer and ATF agent were injured in a shooting Friday. Police said they were searching for a carjacked vehicle when suspects opened fire on them in North Memphis.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday, May 7, that he is proposing bonus pay for police and firefighters over the next three fiscal years.
Tennessee legislators moved in the final days of their just-completed session to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, both changes sought by activists in the wake of the police-involved deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported.
An agreement between the Memphis City Council and the companies behind the Byhalia Connection delays all major decisions on the pipeline until July 1.
Local leaders are looking to house calls to amp up our vaccination efforts, a former duck master begins leading other groups around, and surrogates look to child care.
Tennessee governors have been remaking school reading policies for 40 years, and yet reading achievement scores have barely budged.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said on “Behind The Headlines” that the estimated drop in the county property tax rate to $3.50, accounting for increases in values, should be the line to hold on the county tax rate. But county commissioners this week reviewed numbers suggesting some want to raise taxes beyond that point.
Two Memphis Police officers were legally justified in fatally shooting a Frayser man, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Thursday, May 6.
The Second Gentleman and the U.S. Labor Secretary pushed Thursday, May 6, for support of the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan proposal in Whitehaven and Downtown. They offered different definitions of infrastructure and what is necessary beyond the pandemic for economic recovery than the state’s two Republican U.S. Senators.
Vacation Express will soon offer weekly nonstop flights between Memphis and Cancun, Mexico. The seasonal service is set to resume May 23.
The City of Memphis is ready now to set up phone banks, dispatch street teams.
The 171 cases come from 2,662 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 6.4%.
Reading, writing and reckless driving. Plus, a longtime leader passes away and we could see a new sign of soul emerge.
The temporary fix of cart paths on the golf course could wait to get a feel for what a larger makeover similar to that underway on the Overton Park golf course might involve.
Tennessee’s new elementary school reading policies are the product of a tangled web of government, business and academics that has reshaped national and state reading policies time and again.
Members of the Indian immigrant community send planeload of oxygen concentrators, other aid to help pandemic-plagued nation.
People rolled their eyes when Arnold Perl said FedExForum would be built on time and on budget. And he was right. Perl died this week at the age of 81. He leaves behind a better and more optimistic city.Related story:
Arnold Perl, the former chairman of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority and the New Memphis Arena Public Building Authority, passed away this week after a lifetime of community service.Related story:
Germantown has named Liz Dias as its first whole child director. Dias currently serves as Houston Middle principal.
Decarcerate Memphis, a criminal justice grassroots coalition, has given MPD’s new police chief 100 days to tackle reforms it says are needed to change the “culture and structure” of the department.
The 106 cases come from 1,437 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 7.4%.