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 Shelby County Health Department reported five new coronavirus-related deaths and 171 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, May 6.

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.

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%.

Memphis could soon have a daily reminder that we don’t have “time for things with no soul.”

Is a car the cure for Memphis’ waning demand for the vaccine? Plus, the ’Birds are back at bat, masks could be a thing of the past and who would be on your quintessential Memphis flight.

“There is a lot of talk about we won’t get herd immunity. It depends on the definition of what you describe.”

The two urban areas of Memphis and Nashville control the minority Democratic leadership in state politics, but Memphis and West Tennessee are underrepresented among the Republican majority.

The council also approved a new seven-year lease between the city and the Withers Collection Inc., which has been behind on its rent.

Council unanimously approves a resolution opposing the proposed configuration that would eliminate Scott Street’s southern connection to Poplar Avenue.

Mayor Harris is gathering more advice this week, including hearing from the municipal mayors. 

A bill that would give drivers immunity for hitting protesters in some instances is not moving forward this year.