Regional One Health’s push for funding for a proposed $1 billion hospital has sparked a debate among Daily Memphian readers about local priorities, government support and the responsibility of private healthcare systems.

Before Memphis heads to the polls tomorrow, a look back at the closest elections in city history — Herenton won by 142 votes, and Crump’s 1909 win was even closer. One historian thinks it may have been stolen.

The most interesting thing about this election may be what it could tell us about the next decade. Here’s an analysis of how redistricting could sooner or later give Tennessee Democrats a chance to win House seats.

Also happening this week: The city wants input on new Downtown sign rules.

The political roundup includes two election traditions — The Four Way Soul Food Restaurant and the Republican bus tour along with David Hatley’s change in position on the Memphis Safe Task Force, and Mulroy on “youthful indiscretions.”

“Perhaps these strange new congressional districts offer an opportunity. A rural farmer may come to understand a family in South Memphis. Someone who has never set foot on a farm may come to recognize how the challenges of rural health care resemble those facing uninsured people in Memphis.”

One Democrat reaches for the center. The other grabs a bullhorn. Different strategies, same problem: A national party hellbent on charging ever leftward.

Education advocates in the state have long warned Tennessee’s funding formula is undercounting economically disadvantaged students.

Both are Southern films that viewers will leave knowing more and thinking more deeply. In Memphis this week, the filmmakers will be on hand to display them. 

The buying spree continues as SpaceXAI’s subsidiary has now acquired seven homes and more land in the Southaven area.

A new set of five pillars at South Parkway and Bellevue Boulevard marks the entrance to the park, honors Turner’s legacy, and celebrates the history and culture of the community around it.

Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy talked about the Task Force and investigations of fatal shootings by MSTF members on “Behind The Headlines.”

A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Friday, Oct. 30, that SpaceX’s construction of a natural gas plant in Mississippi likely violated the state’s air regulations despite Mississippi regulators allowing its construction.

The total turnout countywide is the highest in Tennessee’s 95 counties. It outpaces 2022 but trails the 2018 early voter turnout for the same election cycle. Election Day is Nov. 3.

Pearson’s mom was allegedly involved in a polling site “disturbance,” dirt is finally moving at Union Station and there’s a lot brewing on the coffee scene.

This weekend brings another conversion of spooky seasonal events and fall’s seemingly other favorite, cultural festivals. 

A former Memphis-Shelby County Schools employee is seeking $1.5 million in damages from the school system for the “hostile and abusive” work environment she claims Marie Feagins created.

“We have been having to staff two new courtrooms without any extra staff,” Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said.

Kimberly Owens-Pearson, mother of congressional candidate Justin J. Pearson, was accused of causing a “disturbance” at a polling location.

Regional One needs donations, the Tigers wrap their preseason with a loss and Bartlett’s superintendent is saying goodbye.

Reporter Laura Testino joins us today to sort through exactly where the Memphis-Shelby County Schools takeover stands and what we can expect in the future. 

Regional One Health says businesses for hundreds of miles around rely on Memphis’ healthcare system as it fundraises more than $1 billion to build a new hospital.

“Inappropriate sexual behavior by elected officials at every level of government has been excused and allowed to fester for far too long.”

David Stephens, who has served as the only superintendent Bartlett City Schools since the district started in 2014, will be retiring. 

Blackburn was missing from a gubernatorial forum, the County Clerk has new hours and fifth graders are creating public art.