Memphis Light, Gas and Water CEO Doug McGowen said none of the proposed utility increases “have anything to do with the increased costs of operation because of data centers.”

The second council meeting of the week was called after Tuesday’s session ended with police clearing the council chamber, leaving several items awaiting discussion and a vote.

Lakeland school leaders are voicing their opposition to open enrollment and making sure district and city employees can still send their kids to the suburban system.

The meeting comes less than a week after a judge said he “didn’t mean to imply” the oversight board couldn’t do its work with a July 1 order, which MSCS and the state interpreted as a temporary halt.

The Memphis Police Department arrested Demarcus Dickerson, the guy who sells water at the corner of East Parkway and Poplar. Why? For doing what he does. And, yes it’s an outrage. 

John Beifuss retires from the CA, the old Ikea may be another furniture store and we look at why your September MLGW bill was so high.

Every piece of the world’s Ice Breakers gum comes from a factory in Memphis. 

Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle warned his colleagues: “It’s going to get pretty hot down there,” he said. That was before the council voted to postpone the data center moratorium. And then chaos broke out.

The Memphis City Council abruptly stopped business during its regular meeting after the hundreds gathered at Memphis City Hall erupted in displeasure.

New Shelby County Assessor Javier Bailey said he and other county assessors are working on legislation to tax data centers differently than they’re currently assessed.

It was the first item on the agenda of more than 30, but the rest of the meeting was canceled after police and City Hall security cleared the Memphis City Council chamber, those on the scene said.

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Seven Republican members of the U.S. House’s Finance Ways and Means Committee held a historic hearing in Collierville on Tuesday, focusing on the benefits of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is launching a homicide investigation after an inmate’s death on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 201 Poplar. 

Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death.

The businessman painted a stark, dire picture of Downtown.

The Republican congressman said Tuesday in Collierville that the bill could pass Congress this year, possibly as part of a larger package.

“I think: ‘Does anyone get it?’” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker said of several letters from other elected officials urging leniency for Ford. “I think there may be a blind spot when it comes to public service.”

The Memphis City Council will vote on a nonbinding resolution calling for the removal of ICE and National Guard personnel from the Memphis Safe Task Force.

State Rep. and Congressional candidate Justin J. Pearson held a press conference endorsing a data center moratorium ahead of a possible City Council vote.

If Bluff City Pickleball moves into Liberty Park, it could save the city up to $40,000 a year in operating costs. 

The jump in electric bills is directly tied to customers using much more electricity during the September “heat dome” that hovered over Memphis and Shelby County for days. 

MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told the Memphis City Council that the utility’s electric distribution system has enough capacity to accommodate nearly double the residential customers.

Changes are coming to the Land Bank, a Memphis couple fills an empanada need and Cam Boozer does everything. 

Leon Place, located in North Memphis, has the feel of both past prosperity and being a current work-in-progress.

Mayor Paul Young also talked about the return of trolleys, work toward a new Memphis Grizzlies lease at FedExForum as well as the status of the convention center hotel the city bought and other topics.