A city ordinance that would ban cat and dog sales at pet stores within Memphis passed the Memphis City Council Tuesday, Feb. 2, on the first of three readings.

The $200 million slate of capital projects over a three-year period is on its way to state officials are approval after the pair of council votes Tuesday, Feb. 2. Council members approved both after one more review of the numbers and the reasoning behind the unique financing.

Traffic at the Pipkin Building for COVID-19 vaccines was at a trickle Tuesday because the site was only available for the few ready for a second dose. 

Some parents say the content filters on their SCS devices aren’t working and children can “Google anything under the sun.”

The move, announced jointly with Victory Cruise Lines Tuesday, Feb. 2, will take effect for cruises July 1 and later.

In an address to the Memphis Rotary Club, Dr. Jon McCullers gave a practical picture of the road ahead for Shelby County’s pandemic response in 2021. 

The city has been paying Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division about $2 million a year for the past three fiscal years without a corresponding payment from MLGW in the form of a PILOT.

Health Department survey will allow positive case investigation to happen online instead of in phone interviews.

It may be a day or more before the case is confirmed.

About 24% of patients in area ICU beds were COVID-positive or suspected of having the coronavirus.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 206 new coronavirus cases and nine new coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday.

Memphis students are struggling with material taught during virtual learning, a top Shelby County Schools official said, pointing to test results.

Collierville and Germantown staff, along with Shelby County Health Department, opened the suburban site on Tuesday, the first one operating outside of Memphis. The Germantown Baptist Church location is for second doses only.

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The agenda also includes changes to the city’s financial policies to allow the balloon debt structure to finance the project. 

Final walk throughs were taking place Monday as the county prepares for the first vaccination site outside Memphis.

Two local men charged in the U.S. Capitol insurrection Jan. 6 appeared in court Monday. Matthew Bledsoe appeared in Memphis and Ronald Sandlin was in court in Nevada, where he fled after the Washington events. 

Greater Memphis Chamber CEO Beverly Robertson sent a letter to Shelby County Schools superintendent Joris Ray and the board to urge them to reopen Memphis area schools.

The 376 new cases reported Monday come from 5,085 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 7.4%.

First-dose openings are available at Appling location, too. 

The pandemic is taking its toll, Beale Street could be bookended and the surprising group of people who are reluctant to get a vaccine. 

It has been almost 11 months since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Shelby County, and we are tired. Even those who want to follow all the protocols and continue the good fight are more likely to ‘slip’ now and then. It’s called human nature and surveys show that across the country, Americans are weary of the pandemic. 

Despite public health experts’ pleas to get vaccinated, health care workers are among a third of reluctant Americans wanting to wait to get a COVID-19 shot. 

Vaccine distribution will begin this week at Walmart locations across Shelby County, some as early as Wednesday.

The Shelby County Health Department reported 225 new coronavirus cases and 11 virus-related deaths Sunday, Jan. 31.