A group is lobbying to have a community-driven Tax Increment Financing District, or TIF, created for South Memphis to address poverty, blight and disinvestment in the area.

But the reforms amount to a hollow ruse, says activist who complained about an officer who shot and killed a Black man in 2013.

Shelby County commissioners will get opinions from the county’s other elected officials as they work through problems with the county’s hiring freeze resolution.

Gov. Bill Lee’s latest press briefing is in progress.

With less than two months left in his final term, the state representative raised concerns about the state’s method for evaluating teachers, urging the House Education Committee to find another way to measure their performance.

All high school extracurricular activities are postponed until Oct. 6.

The last time the agency reported less than 100 cases was exactly two weeks ago.

Just call this the vacation edition. We’re talking about bars in prep mode, a popular pizza place and teachers wanting to go virtual. 

It’s probably not even possible to measure the full impact Pat Lawler has had in the 40 years he has been running Youth Villages. But the nonprofit’s growth, while insisting on tracking the effectiveness of programs, has led to a national model. 

Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn avoided a no-confidence vote Tuesday, Sept. 21 but not verbal criticism from lawmakers during a House Education Committee hearing.

Tennessee superintendents described a litany of problems to legislators Tuesday, Sept. 22, with the worst of the problems being that low-performing students are falling further behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Teachers voiced their frustration with the current back to school plan at Collierville School Board’s meeting Tuesday night.

As early as Wednesday, some limited-service restaurants will reopen, but all restaurants still must close at 10 p.m.

The latest Health Directive goes into effect at midnight.

Symposium will focus on basic and translational vision research, artificial intelligence, drug development and research, innovation in clinical care and COVID-19.

The 108 new coronavirus cases reported by the Shelby County Health Department on Tuesday was the lowest number reported in about a week’s time.

On Monday, Sept. 14, the Health Department reported 105 new COVID-19 cases. 

It’s the first day of fall, and Prime Time is going to Jackson, the police can use social media for investigations and one woman finds herself 6,000 miles away from home but flourishing in Memphis. 

Jeremy Burnett and Michelle Childs, who were appointed last year to the Lakeland Board of Education, are running unopposed in November.

The Memphis legal community memorialized the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monday night, Sept. 21, and vowed her fight for the marginalized will live on in them.

Two changes sought by the city of Memphis in a 41-year-old consent decree governing police surveillance will not be allowed under a ruling issued Monday, Sept. 21, by U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla allowing most changes.

President Donald Trump’s plan to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is putting Senate candidates Bill Hagerty and Marquita Bradshaw at odds six weeks before the Nov. 3 election.

Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Rhodes College graduate, is once again a frontrunner for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, this time to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to reports.

Ramsey, a businessman, author and radio show host, started Ramsey Education, which offers the personal finance lessons. 

The Health Department also reported 231 new coronavirus cases.