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    Reporters address what elements might add up to property-tax hike

    A reporters roundtable on “Behind The Headlines” talks about Mayor Paul Young’s property tax hike proposal, new figures showing a drop in crime and first moves by the new MSCS superintendent.

    By Bill Dries April 21, 2024
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    As college-age population falls, Hardgrave says U of M competing with companies like Amazon

    President Bill Hardgrave wants to make the U of M “the most transfer-friendly university in the country.”

    By Bill Dries April 08, 2024
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    Police union leaders support new state law preventing limits on traffic stops

    Memphis Police Association President Matt Cunningham and Vice President John Covington discussed recent public safety legislation, agreements and negotiations with the Memphis Police Department, recruitment and more on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Julia Baker April 01, 2024
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    Crime exodus is real, Memphis business leaders say

    Business leaders on “Behind The Headlines” say Memphians leaving the city because of crime is a real threat to the city’s economic prosperity, and they had to act on the problem. 

    By Bill Dries March 23, 2024
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    Beale Street returns to safety plan with approach of spring, bigger crowds

    The DMC will also continue its policy of what amounts to a cover charge that goes to pay the cost of the private security.

    By Bill Dries March 16, 2024
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    City Council members say perception and data go together in fighting crime

    Perception and fear have to be part of the conversation when political leaders are weighing solutions for Memphis’ crime problem, they say.

    By Bill Dries March 09, 2024
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    State Sens. London Lamar, Brent Taylor debate on bail reform, proposed laws

    Two state senators, both from the Memphis area and both members of Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee, agree on many aspects of the city’s crime problem even though they see different paths for solving it.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2024
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    Paul Young wants first budget to focus on crime, blight, potholes and more

    Young said in an interview on WKNO-TV’s “Behind the Headlines” the budget will be “more firmed up” in the coming months. He will take a budget proposal to the Memphis City Council in May.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Mayor outlines new public safety director’s job, still backs Chief Davis

    Memphis Mayor Paul Young says the city’s new public safety director is a position that will consolidate the city’s response to violent crime. Young talked about that and other crime issues on WKNO-TV’s “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    DA Mulroy talks bail bills, court backlogs and more

    Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy discussed new legislation, court backlogs and more during an episode of WKNO-TV’s “Behind the Headlines.”

    By Julia Baker February 10, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Nonprofit leaders criticize Chamber’s call for help against crime

    Leaders of two local nonprofits say on “Behind The Headlines” that business leaders are wrong in their call to the state to enact changes to bail reform and fund tourism safety measures to the tune of $50 million.

    By Bill Dries February 04, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Investigation of MPD complicates things, US attorney says

    The top federal prosecutor in Memphis, U.S. attorney for Western Tennessee Kevin Ritz, says the Department of Justice inquiry affects the relationship his office has with the law enforcement body.

    By Aarron Fleming January 27, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Northside Square developers take on barriers to affordable housing

    Roshun Austin and Archie Willis III of the Klondike Partners development group talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the financial hoops the adaptive reuse of Northside High School has had to jump through.

    By Bill Dries January 20, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Police Chief Davis’ showdown with the City Council: What it means

    A reporter’s roundtable on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines” included a discussion of the rough reception MPD Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis got at the year’s first city council session.

    By Bill Dries January 16, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Shelby County mayor affirms support of new school funding

    Mayor Lee Harris offered a preview of the budget proposal he will take to Shelby County commissioners in the spring and refuted speculation that the county is short of the funding needed for new high schools.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2024
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    Lee Harris on Wanda Halbert: ‘She won’t sign anything’

    “I think it’s time for us to figure out a solution, and it’s hard to believe that the solution is Wanda Halbert as county clerk,” said the Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on WKNO’s “Behind the Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries January 05, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Chamber’s take: I-55 replacement bridge a better bet than a third one

    The economic development chief of the Greater Memphis Chamber says on “Behind The Headlines” that a replacement bridge is a much faster path forward. Plus, she talks about actively courting another automaker to the region. 

    By Bill Dries December 23, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    Memphis homicides broke a record in 2023, Lee talks vouchers and more

    Memphis’ homicide rate, school vouchers and passenger rail were among the topics discussed on this week’s “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Ben Wheeler December 16, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    MLGW has been ‘running to failure,’ CEO says

    “It has been one heck of a year, and it’s culminated with this most recent decision by City Council,” MLGW President and CEO Doug McGowen said of this week’s vote to approve a 12% electricity rate hike. 

    By Keely Brewer December 09, 2023
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    Downtown Public Safety Plan emerges amid holiday season

    The Downtown Memphis crime plan surfaced in October. It could face its first test this holiday season. Officials involved in putting it together talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the plan and the reality it is built to confront.

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    Strickland talks pandemic, reviews two terms as mayor

    In the second part of his end-of-term interview on “Behind The Headlines,” Mayor Jim Strickland also talked about the upcoming transition to Mayor-elect Paul Young and why he is fond of asphalt.

    By Bill Dries November 25, 2023
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    Mayor Jim Strickland doubles down on ‘broken’ criminal justice system on WKNO

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks about coming to the end of his 8-year tenure as mayor in the first part of a two-part interview on “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries November 18, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    Memphis park leaders talk controversy, collaboration and more

    The leaders of Memphis Parks, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy and Memphis River Parks Partnership talk on “Behind The Headlines” about the combination of public spaces and parks in the city.

    By Bill Dries November 11, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    ‘It’s not the end of the world,’ Young says of Liberty Park

    The mayor-elect says the city accounts for the possibility of making short-term bond payments on projects such as Liberty Park.

    By Samuel Hardiman November 04, 2023
  • Behind The Headlines

    Behind ‘Community Conversations’ on crime and public safety

    Beverly and Howard Robertson talk on “Behind The Headlines” about what they heard about crime from focus groups across the city as part of The Daily Memphian’s “Community Conversations” series.

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    Memphis is in a ‘crime crisis,’ focus group participants say

    Who’s responsible for reducing crime? For some, the onus is on the mayor

    Like a weed, crime needs to be addressed at the root

    ‘Not willing to give up:’ What focus group participants said about crime

    By Bill Dries October 28, 2023

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