Lions, a tiger and bears, oh my, play into this week’s Ask the Memphian. Because we’re not just horsing around.

State Sen. Brent Taylor proposed a bill in March that would have created a state-level board to offer companies tax incentives for projects in Memphis.

Also happening this week: TCAP testing begins for Memphis-Shelby County Schools, and Felicia Suzanne’s reopens.

The commission also takes a second reading vote Monday on a pay raise for the next Shelby County Sheriff. Final action on a pair of ethics ordinances has been delayed to next month.

Memphis Public Libraries marked the 1893 opening of the Cossitt on Saturday, April 12, with discussions of the history about public libraries in the city that touched on racial segregation and more.

“I look forward to today all year long,” said Jennifer Seidman, who hosted acts on her porch on Oliver Avenue. “To me, Porchfest is just taking that community we have and celebrating it.”

Church Health CEO Jennie Robbins talked on “Behind The Headlines” about concerns that show up with the nonprofit’s patients amid national policy changes in Washington, D.C.

In a lengthy hearing late Friday afternoon, Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson declined to dismiss a long-running lawsuit waged by a Chickasaw Gardens resident against the Pink Palace Museum and the City of Memphis.

K. Durell Cowan, founder of Heal 901, said that, in spite of a mass shooting this week in Hickory Hill, the “proof is in the numbers” that gun violence prevention is working.

Bernice Jarrett is charged with one count of aggravated neglect of a vulnerable person and five counts of neglect of a vulnerable person.

A missing boy is found dead, an anti-immigrant education bill moves ahead and soul food is coming back to Ms. Girlee’s.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office held a special lighting ceremony Thursday, April 10, in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

Woman charged with several counts of neglect of a vulnerable person used to own a business with her ex-husband to care for “mentally and physically disabled individuals.”

Shelby County’s five state senators voted down party lines for a bill that would allow school districts to deny education to students based on immigration status.

A 5-year-old boy with autism who went missing Wednesday afternoon was found dead Thursday, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Six people were shot at an anti-gun violence meeting, MSCS is losing funds it needs for school repairs and xAI may be breaking the law. 

With video appearances by Trek luminaries Jonathan Frakes and Armin Shimerman, Star Trek Day returns to Memphis this Sunday. The event will also raise money for pancreatic cancer patients. Make it so.

The U.S. Department of Education’s changed rules for remaining pandemic funds have thrown some funding for Memphis-Shelby County Schools building projects in limbo. 

One person was killed and five others injured Wednesday afternoon when gunfire rang out at a meeting of Memphis Allies, a group meant to prevent gun violence.

“I mean, Tom was the kind of person that made a university a community,” said former university president M. David Rudd of Tom Nenon, who died Friday, April 4, of cancer. 

The four days of intense rainfall set a new record for the period in Memphis and raised the level of the Mississippi River at Memphis dramatically. 

In a strange story, a woman has been arrested after stopping in Memphis on an apparent trip from Texas to Virginia after six disabled adults were found living in deplorable conditions on the bus she drove.

The groups are urging the Health Department to issue an emergency order to stop xAI’s operation of what appear to be dozens of natural gas turbines in Southwest Memphis. 

Local measles case was a false alarm, the Hilton hotel is up for sale and we remember inventor/businessman Dan Oppenheimer.

Dan Oppenheimer’s children say he saw no reason in retiring because his work gave him creative expression and avenues for improving the world.