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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday proposed more than $1 billion into road projects financed by a one-time use of general state tax money and a plan to shift $80 million annually from the sales tax on tires.
The resolution approved Monday, Feb. 10, calls for $50,000 in funding for the audit from the County Commission’s contingency fund.
Musk bought Twitter, now called X, for $44 billion in 2022.
MAS interim head pushes for a new shelter, a DeSoto man sues over “false incarceration” and the Tigers get their revenge.
MAS Interim Director Mary Claire Borys said the outbreak might never have happened if not for the inadequacies at the city’s nearly 14-year-old animal shelter in Northeast Memphis.
Art Davis, the interim executive director of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, has been an accountant, a construction overseer and even Santa Claus during his time with the organization.
The new complaint makes reference to a series of separate complaints filed with the city in March by a group of Black MFD firefighters.
Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three members of the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.
Also happening this week: Bartlett’s BMA votes on new RV parking rules, and a new crisis center opens in Binghampton.
The commission also votes Monday on a set of three resolutions buying four more parcels on land on the new site for a rebuilt Regional One Health campus.
A pair of athletic shoes — among the most popular brands in the country — kick-started an investigation that would lead to Sherwood Brown spending close to three decades only a short walk from execution.
In a new world, Democrats are deciding how to climb back after last year’s defeat while Republicans are making their next moves across Tennessee.
From now until March 9, Girl Scout cookies are being sold across Memphis. For six bucks a box, you can get one of nine different options, although Thin Mints and Samoas are the most popular.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water would lose revenue if a water-recycling plant is built. The utility’s CEO still says it’s “what we have been looking for.”
Shelby County Commissioners Mickell Lowery and Britney Thornton talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the political boundary between the commission and the MSCS board.
Two Shelby County Jail inmates died on Thursday and Friday, bringing the total to four this week.
Shelby County Jail is packed, and Greater Memphis is getting more hot pot, more seafood and more burgers.
The average population at 201 Poplar has grown by roughly 600 inmates over the past two years.
The private school opened the third campus in an effort to diversify its student body. The Memphis campus could become a public school by the fall.
State lawmakers try to deny education access, the County Commission may order an MSCS audit and business owners deal with egg-flation.
Without a revived contract with Memphis-Shelby County Schools, the Peer Power Foundation began working instead with area charter schools, board co-chair Dow McVean wrote in a public letter Wednesday.
The legislation would directly challenge a more than 40-year-old precedent that ensures all children access to a free public education regardless of immigration status.
“We are not going to give up one of our greatest traditions because of a few people who have no parenting at home and can’t act right,” Mayor Darren Musselwhite said about the upcoming Springfest.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners will vote on the resolution at its Monday, Feb. 10, meeting, authorizing $50,000 from the commission’s contingency fund to pay for the audit.