The County Commission Scorecard takes a look at votes from the Feb. 8 session. 

Friends and colleagues talk about the irrepressible good sport and hard worker who had just begun his life of service. 

The resolution from Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland going to City Council next week would include the city’s tallest building in the use of a PILOT extension fund and also include a parking garage in the “Snuff District.”

Ken Taylor, a well-known politico and education advocate, died Monday at age 36.

Second day of vaccine appointments canceled.

Millington Schools will remain closed, while other suburban districts plan to reopen Friday.

The coating of ice arrived just before dawn Thursday, after a night of rain and followed by a light snow by afternoon. It is expected to hang around into the weekend.
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Memphians woke up this morning to freezing rain and icy conditions. 

Those 190 cases come from 4,253 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 4.5%.

After a tense exchange between two Memphis-area lawmakers, the Senate Education Committee voted 8-1 for a measure that would ensure Gov. Bill Lee could legally force Shelby County Schools to offer in-person learning.

A young surgeon succumbs to a COVID-related illness, Memphis’ restaurant couples are heating things up and perhaps we’ve had enough of your 1994 ice storm horror stories, thank you very much. 

Novel therapy program is among new offender-focused interventions that seek to reduce domestic violence.

Given what we actually know about COVID spread and what we should value, it’s never felt right to me that I could sit inside a restaurant dining room but my kids couldn’t sit inside a classroom.

The beleaguered Shelby County Health Department simply cannot effectively manage the monumental effort needed to distribute vaccines. We need someone to take charge and lead. Someone who will get things done, without excuses.

Dr. J. Barton Williams did not know he had COVID; antibody was present in his blood, doctors say.

All six suburban districts and the University of Memphis campus are closed due to the threat of winter precipitation.

In a luncheon speech to the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, the secretary of state highlights a smooth Tennessee election and the problems facing businesses during the pandemic.

Temperatures will drop to 33 degrees, bringing rain Wednesday evening and later 31 degrees overnight.

The top federal prosecutor for the Western District of Tennessee, which includes Memphis, was appointed in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump.

All Thursday appointments run through the Health Department have been postponed a week.

The day’s positivity rate hovered around 8%. 

The letter to pastors and congregations from seven council members points to a racial disparity in the virus and death rates from the virus as well as testing that is now surfacing in vaccination numbers for the county. 

The Appling City Cove vaccination site remains the closest site for Northeast Shelby County as suburbs in that area seek a location to serve their citizens.

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