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    Cohen pushes for Barr impeachment, sees partisan divide in police reform calls

    The city's top elected Democrat talked about Barr's coming appearance before the House next month and the police reform debate in Washington and in the streets of Memphis.

    By Bill Dries June 28, 2020
  • Education

    Tennessee’s charter school commission widens search for leader

    Tennessee’s charter schools sector has grown to 118 since a 2002 state law opened the door to the publicly funded, independently operated schools. Most are in Memphis. And its new overseeing body, the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Commission, is extending its search for an executive director.

    By Marta W. Aldrich June 28, 2020
  • Health Care

    COVID testing lags in Latino community when workers can’t afford job loss

    For people who have no sick days, unemployment, the cost of testing and the quarantine that may follow are costs they avoid.

    By Jane Roberts June 28, 2020
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    First 12 days of protests in 12 photos

    Daily Memphian photojournalist Patrick Lantrip takes a look at the first twelve straight days of protests over the death of George Floyd through 12 photos on the one-month anniversary of the first day of protests in Memphis. 

    By Patrick Lantrip June 27, 2020
  • Coronavirus

    Shelby County has 365 new coronavirus cases, three new deaths

    The Shelby County Health Department reported 365 new coronavirus cases and three new deaths Saturday. 

    By Jared Boyd June 27, 2020
  • Education

    Calls grow to cancel TNReady testing second straight year

    Groups began lining up both for and against testing after Superintendent Joris Ray, who leads the state’s largest district in Memphis, said he would petition the education commissioner to drop the annual assessment known as TNReady in 2020-21.

    By Marta W. Aldrich June 27, 2020
  • Podcast Public Safety

    Black Lives Matter sees a positive shift in support

    Black Lives Matter is a seven-year-old movement with an ambitious platform beyond the protests of police abuses with which it has been most associated. And in the past month of protests, activists and academics locally have seen reaction to it shift — a shift explored on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast and a recent Hooks Institute forum.

    By Bill Dries June 30, 2020
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    Second-longest heart transplant survivor in U.S. now has also beat COVID

    Thomas Bryant, a heart transplant survivor, was admitted to the hospital weeks after he had surgery for colon cancer. His COVID treatment and recovery will be part of body of research being gathered around the world that will help scientists know how to treat people with underlying conditions. 

    By Jane Roberts June 27, 2020
  • Shelby County

    County Clerk’s offices to reopen after a COVID case shut them down

    Clerk Wanda Halbert says the seven locations will operate differently. They'll have appointments, and people will wait in their cars before being called into the office. Halbert warns there could be long lines and few employees at the counter until social distancing partitions are installed. The one-week shutdown was the second for the office since the global pandemic was declared in mid-March.

    By Bill Dries June 26, 2020
  • Public Safety

    Nine religious leaders reject Strickland police reform effort

    Nine ministers – who were all involved in the set of private meetings with the mayor that lead up to his City Hall announcement Thursday regarding moves toward police reform – put out a letter Friday critical of the reforms Strickland had announced.

    By Bill Dries June 26, 2020
  • Coronavirus

    Shelby County coronavirus cases increase by 157, deaths by 2

    According to the state’s Hospital Resources Tracking System, 84% of acute care and 83% of intensive care unit hospital beds are being used, overall, in Shelby County.

    By Elle Perry June 26, 2020
  • The Early Word

    The Early Word: Strickland pushes ahead on masks, police reform; the FedExForum lease at work

    As local COVID rates continue to rise, Mayor Jim Strickland signed the City Council's mask ordinance, and also announced next steps on policing reform. Geoff Calkins looks at the initial negotiations on the FedExForum lease, and the surplus it's yielded. 

    By Chris Herrington June 26, 2020
  • Premium Business

    Memphians for America may fade away after Saturday’s flag sale

    The time for “Taps” may have arrived for Memphians for America. The group anticipates its street-corner sales of U.S. flags may be the last after holding the event yearly for a half-century.

    By Tom Bailey June 26, 2020
  • Shelby County

    Harris: New budget means layoffs, cuts in vital services likely

    The county mayor also said in a "Behind The Headlines" interview that he has no regrets about his budget proposal that the commission rejected, which included a wheel tax hike with some budget cuts and an ambitious five-year plan to fund new school construction.

    By Bill Dries June 26, 2020
  • Metro

    City Council, County Commission return to in-person meetings after 4th

    The Shelby County Commission is planning to install plexiglass barriers when it returns to its chambers next month. The Memphis City Council is making arrangements to find a new temporary meeting place. Its City Hall chambers are still undergoing a renovation that began before the pandemic.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2020
  • PODCAST Shelby County

    Harris talks COVID-19, the budget and more

    This week on WKNO’s Behind the Headlines, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris joins host Eric Barnes and Bill Dries.   

    By Eric Barnes June 25, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Strickland signs mask ordinance

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has signed the ordinance that requires masks or face coverings inside public places within the city.

    By Bill Dries June 26, 2020
  • Coronavirus

    Health Department: 232 hospitalized locally for coronavirus

    David Sweat, head of epidemiology at the Shelby County Health Department, said the age of those hospitalized has gone down since the pandemic started.

    By Omer Yusuf June 25, 2020
  • Business

    Businesses say it’s easier to close than work short-handed when an employee gets COVID

    Josh Hammond at Buster's and other business owners, trying to do the right thing, aren’t entirely sure what the parameters are when employees test positive.

    By Jane Roberts June 25, 2020
  • Coronavirus

    Shelby County coronavirus cases rise by 294, deaths by 9

    Those 294 new cases come from 2,963 tests, a 9.9% positivity rate.

    By Elle Perry June 25, 2020
  • Public Safety

    Strickland outlines MPD changes including seeking subpoena power for CLERB

    The press conference comes after a month of private discussions with community and religious leaders and a move toward police reforms by the Memphis City Council as well as the Shelby County Commission. 

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2020
  • The Early Word

    The Early Word: FedExForum lease, school plans, rising COVID rates

    The FedExForum lease agreement between the Memphis Grizzlies and Memphis/Shelby County is on the cusp of a tricky new phase, even though all parties are more concerned right now with what everyone else is: Those COVID rates keep rising. 

    By Chris Herrington June 25, 2020
  • Public Safety

    ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on sidewalks near former Forrest statue site

    Activists have painted Black Lives Matter on sidewalks surrounding the site where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest stood for decades before it was removed in 2017. 

    By Yolanda Jones June 25, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Local journalists, PR professionals stress importance of media diversity

    PRSA Memphis and Memphis Association of Black Journalists emphasize in "Media and Racism" webinar how diversity at all levels in media help organizations paint a true picture.

    By Christin Yates June 25, 2020
  • Elections

    Early voting sites are set, with one change

    Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova is replaced by Briarwood Church among the 26 locations that open for July 17 for the early voting period in advance of the Aug. 6 election day. State and federal primaries as well as county general elections are on the ballot. And more than 5,000 citizens have applied so far to vote by absentee ballots in the election.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2020

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