Anonymous donors are willing to fund the operation of a Universal Parenting Place, if they can find a qualified site operator. 

A bill by Rep. Steve Cohen would remove the name of the late segregationist congressman Clifford Davis from Memphis’ Downtown federal building and courthouse.

The plan was outlined in a Thursday State of the City speech by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. Strickland also outlined two violent crime intervention programs.

Legislators passed four bills Thursday, Jan. 21, during the third day of a special education session amid protests from Democrats, education advocates and at least one Republican.

Nurses and physicians will check in daily; vitals will be monitored around the clock and meals will be delivered.

The new president also is seeking to expand testing and vaccine availability, with the goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office.

Union workers have fought for increased wages at the University of Memphis for several years.

The county’s large-scale evictions, relatively affordable housing and median unemployment rate make it representative of hundreds of communities in the nation. 

“We want to remind people that we saw that it was necessary to change the health directive in response to changes we are seeing in the data,” Dr. Bruce Randolph said. “We are making progress. There is a downward trend in a lot of our metrics.”

The new site will be the first in Shelby County outside of Memphis.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 14 new coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday, Jan. 21.

After two days with no new deaths attributed to the coronavirus, the Shelby County Health Department reported 14 on Thursday. 

The Grizzlies’ majority owner earns an incentive, Justin Timberlake and Stax students bring Memphis to the world, and we could be dancing in the streets (with members of our own families).

The city settled a civil lawsuit filed by Martavious Banks, who was shot by a police officer during a chase and traffic stop in 2018. Some officers in the case turned off their body cameras during the incident. 

Tennessee legislators began a special session on education Wednesday, Jan. 20, by advancing three bills to Senate committee and five others to subcommittees, including two bills that would raise teacher pay.

The resolutions were discussed as commissioners watched the presidential inauguration while working through committee agendas. The full commission votes on the matters Monday.

Sawyer wants to examine the ground rules for awarding the most-used tax incentive in Memphis economic development and the results of past or ongoing PILOTs.

No businesses are specifically closed under the new directive, but restrictions remain and individuals are asked to play larger role in tamping down community transmission.

The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

The agency plans to release the information every Wednesday.

In a brief special meeting Wednesday, Jan. 20, Shelby County commissioners approved a $300,000 transfer of funds to pay legal expenses in a wrongful death lawsuit.

 If it passes, Tennessee’s two largest school systems would have to reopen quickly to meet that threshold.

A light wind from a Bluff City business, new charges for a local politician and a Capitol rioter’s Memphis backstory.

A Memphis police officer charged with murder and kidnapping has resigned. MPD released his personnel files Tuesday, showing two incidents during his two years on the force. 

Here are the moves the city’s four representatives in Washington, D.C. have made in the historic gap between certifying the Electoral College vote and Wednesday’s inauguration, with a Capitol insurrection in between and plenty of political volatility still around.

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