Shelby County Schools students spoke candidly this week on what they want and need from teachers.

The County Commission has about three weeks to amend the budget if it wants to approve it in time for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. 

The convention at the Paradise Entertainment Center in South Memphis Saturday drew no city council incumbents before a group of 600 to the nightclub, with about 200 participating in the process that stretched over six hours.

Local politicians, friends and family gathered Saturday at St. Patrick Presbyterian Church in Collierville to say goodbye to Roy C. Nixon, the lawman and civic leader who served as Shelby County's first mayor.

The Saturday gathering in South Memphis will include endorsements in the October Memphis elections. But its organizers hope the platform will be just as strong as the appeals from different candidates.

Technical difficulties with visitation system at 201 Poplar causes the Shelby County Sheriff's Office to stop all jail visits for at least a week until the issue is resolved. 

The County Commission's budget committee discussed potential next steps in the budget process when it reconvened Wednesday morning. 

Roy Nixon began his career as a lawman with Memphis police and later went into politics becoming Shelby County first mayor under a new form of government where he built relationships with other city leaders. 

Rev. Ayanna Watkins says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast the group is working on its own and within the political process toward change that is part evolution and part disruption.

The new initiative is a strategic plan to increase student enrollment.

Rev. Ayanna Watkins, executive director and lead organizer of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope) talks about the organization's work on equity in a city election year.

Germantown residents who experienced flood damage due to heavy rain overnight are asked to call (901) 757-7200.

The “Wear Orange” anti-gun violence rally will be held at Orange Mound Community Center because of rainy weather.

The world’s largest and oldest testing company, Pearson will become the third vendor in five years to administer TNReady in the state’s messy transition to computer-based testing.

A $4.5 million building permit application was filed for one of Southwest Tennessee Community College’s main campuses.

Memphis-based Fogelman Properties, one of the nation’s largest privately owned multifamily investment and property management companies, has made its third acquisition of 2019.

With six weeks left to file qualifying petitions, the number of likely candidates in Memphis elections is on par with four years ago, with a dozen contenders having pulled petitions for the city mayor's race so far.

Dr. Michael Steuer, president and medical director at MidSouth Pain Center, has opened a clinic in Beverly Hills that uses ketamine, traditionally used for anesthesia, to treat depression, PTSD and other psychiatric disorders. 

Both local Saint Francis Healthcare hospitals are leading a community effort to provide area children and adults struggling with hunger with a healthy breakfast during the summer.

In an effort to increase the hourly wage for its lowest-paid employees, the University of Memphis board of trustees has approved an across-the-board pay raise for all faculty and staff. 

Yolanda Dandridge is leaving for charter operator Memphis Scholars. She will take charge of the Memphis-based charter organization’s Caldwell Guthrie Elementary School. She’s been at Georgian Hills as a teacher, assistant principal and principal since 2013. 

Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray says the district needs to listen more before deciding whether to implement his predecessor's plan to consolidate 28 schools into 10 new ones.

There is no immediate move to sell Confederate monuments removed from two Memphis parks until all appeals by Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is contesting the sale of the parks and the statues' removal, are exhausted. 

Shelby County House Republicans say Speaker Glen Casada is wearing out his welcome with an Aug. 2 resignation date, with two contending he should step down immediately as caucus leaders push for an earlier time frame for a special session to replace him.

Vatterott Career College’s shuttered culinary school in Cordova will reopen this summer as an extension of the University of Memphis Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality & Resort Management.