Pho Saigon has a new owner, Rhodes College has a new president and we’re going to need a bigger boat dock. 

The awards show dedicated to honoring Memphis Black men and their accomplishments will be held Dec. 9 at the National Civil Rights Museum.

Most council members abstained or didn’t vote Monday in a test vote on the new proposal to allow Memphis Police officers to live outside the county ,but within a 50-mile radius. 

While punting on the gas station, the Shelby County Commission did approve an appeal for a gated community on Forest Hill Irene. Also, Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. defended his father against criticism of his behavior at a Memphis City Council meeting last month.

The commission, sheriff and mayor raises moved forward on the second of three votes Monday, with third and final vote in two weeks. 

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City Court Clerk Myron Lowery is seeking to appoint former Shelby County Commission administrator Calvin Williams, once convicted on federal bribery charges while county commission administrator, as one of his deputy clerks.

City mulls major riverfront improvements with possible funding from the state. 

The coronavirus Omicron variant isn’t in Tennessee yet — or, at least, no cases have been identified — but state Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said Monday, Dec. 6, that she expects it to arrive within a few weeks.

The low-interest loan will finance infrastructure to protect parts of the city from flooding.

Rhodes College announced that its 21st president is currently a dean at Southern Methodist University.

Plus, a school system is growing, a new football club finds a winning formula and what’s happening with all the Tigers’ talent? 

The commission could address pay raises for itself, the mayor and sheriff are on Monday’s agenda. A commission pay raise would trigger pay raises for city council members and possibly the Shelby County Schools board.

A Germantown doctor who temporarily lost her license in 2018 for using a whip on patients, and then did not follow the terms of her professional probation, has had her license suspended again.

Andre Mathis spends a great deal of time on service, much of it to the Memphis neighborhoods where he was raised. He could be the first Black man from Tennessee confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

The RedZone Ministries Opportunity Zone Center will stand at 30,000 square feet and will house a large recreation facility, game room, cafe, multi-purpose room, classrooms and offices.

Seventeen thousand runners, including cancer survivors and some running in memory of loved ones, were part of the throng trotting through Downtown and Midtown streets.

Neighborhoods that would receive the tax-increment financing would include Soulsville/South Bellevue, South Third/Gaston Park area, French Fort, South City and South Main/South End. 

A leader of the Big River Park Conservancy and the CEO of Ducks Unlimited talk on Behind The Headlines about plans for the flood plain across the Mississippi River from Memphis that include restoring farm land to hardwood forests and native grasses.

Due to close scores, the Tennessee Department of Education honored two top principals this year.

The federal government is funded into February with the votes among the city’s representatives in Washington falling along party lines with one exception — a senator who did not vote on the continuing resolution.

A $250,000 partnership between the Children’s Museum of Memphis and Porter-Leath allows 1,500 families enrolled in the Porter-Leath Early Head Start program to have free access to the museum.

Memphis Councilman JB Smiley plans to sponsor a Memphis City Council resolution naming a street after the rapper. 

Team of teens from Memphis neighborhoods counter “pay-to-play” youth sports machine with Play Where You Stay.

Popular taco truck owner plans to open Germantown restaurant, Grizz get a huge win and an epic rap battle brings out all the features. 

Memphis City Council members talk about a new bid to allow police officers and firefighters to live outside Shelby County at a special committee session Monday, Dec. 6.