City Council members got their first look at the details of Accelerate Memphis on Tuesday, Jan. 26. 

Three of the university’s online programs have increased their ranking significantly in the listing.

Thousands of extra COVID-19 vaccine doses are headed to Shelby County from the state and Centers for Disease Control.

The standby list is not first come, first served as it still needs to follow the state priority list. 

Shelby County’s reported coronavirus total is now 80,991 cases, including 74,905 inactive cases (recoveries), 4,884 active cases and 1,202 deaths. 

There were only 221 newly reported coronavirus cases on Tuesday, but those cases came from just 2,257 tests.

Frida’s owners say “I do” to another location, Ja could be big in Japan and Germantown studies a new park place. 

City Council members Tuesday will consider banning puppy sales as the only national pet store chain that sells puppies is readying a Wolfchase store. The council also gets an update on the vacant 100 North Main Building and talks over the latest changes to the city’s sewer system.

County officials and attorneys for Shelby County Jail detainees have agreed to guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the jail.

With no discussion, Shelby County commissioners approved Monday, Jan. 25, a resolution that forbids the county from renaming any of its property, roads, bridges or buildings in honor of former President Donald Trump.

Shelby County commissioners agree that the tax incentives, the most potent part of the local economic development arsenal, need to be discussed. The conversation Monday was about how to shape the discussion so that it doesn’t go the way of past conversations about PILOTs.

The ordinance allows the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and Emergency and Homeland Security to acquire some surplus military hardware for protection and natural disasters. But most military hardware offered by the federal government requires a majority vote of the commission.

After receiving a text, people would have four hours to get to a vaccination site.

The section of Highland in front of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is being renamed to honor Father Nicholas L. Vieron, the church’s longtime pastor who died in September.

Kyle Veazey, the deputy chief operating officer for the city of Memphis, is moving to ALSAC, the fund-raising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, as senior vice president for executive operations. 

The Health Department reported about 415 new coronavirus cases Monday, Jan. 25. 

Memphis police are investigating the discovery over the weekend of what appeared to be human bones on Mud Island.

The Tennessee Alliance for Equity in Education is organized by The Education Trust, which last year opened a state office in Tennessee.

Second COVID-19 vaccination dose is available only at Appling site this week.

The Landers Center is replacing the DeSoto County Health Department as a vaccination site.

We’ve got Cummins and goings, the death of a local legend, and excitement in Orange Mound. 

The Monday County Commission meeting includes a possible six-month moratorium on new PILOTs. And there is a compromise with Sheriff Floyd Bonner that would rewrite the ordinance requiring him to get approval from the commission to acquire surplus military hardware from the federal government.

The week featured some social media sniping, a MLK Day rebuke and a video plea from Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray.

Dr. Jon McCullers, a Memphis infectious disease expert, says greater ‘central control’ was needed at both the federal and state levels for a more effective response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The health department reported five additional deaths among people who tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 1,187 people in Shelby County have died who had the virus. The number of Tennesseans who tested positive and died is 8,859.