The annual celebration of Whitehaven continues this week culminating with the community’s Christmas Parade on Saturday. 

Attorneys for RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mother, said that the city “misused” the court docket and is attempting “to poison the jury pool” in a case set for trial next year.

“We’ve got to face the reality,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “The (Cordova) project may not be dead permanently, but it’s suffered a pretty big death blow.”

She was arrested numerous times for participating in sit-ins, starting in March 1960 when she and others demanded access to library books.

It is unclear whether MPD Interim Chief C.J. Davis has the council votes to become the full-time chief again, but she appears to have gained at least one vote since January.

Also happening this week: The Shelby County Commission returns to a pay-raise request for the Circuit Court Clerk’s office, and the Grizzlies kick off the Emirates NBA Cup tournament.

The claims add a new twist to the $550 million civil rights lawsuit that Tyre Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, and his estate have filed against the City of Memphis following Nichols’ 2023 beating and death at the hands of five now-former Memphis Police Department officers. 

The proposed America’s River Crossing Bridge will replace the 75-year-old Memphis-Arkansas Bridge, with twice the lanes and extra shoulder space.

Two groups want to stop the city from enforcing the nonbinding gun-control measures voters approved during a referendum last week.

A proposed fire station on Macon Road was slated to provide fire service to areas of de-annexed Cordova, but soaring costs have scuttled the project and left Shelby County looking to Memphis to respond to fires. 

Also, public art of a rat drew the ire of some council members. “We’ve got one guy who is sort of stepping in the poop, and we are all having to smell it,” Jeff Warren said.

City Council members cited concerns about traffic safety around the site as well as hazardous materials and industrial uses at that location in the past.

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Mike Fletcher has represented the city in court and other legal matters for 33 years.

The Memphis City Council will dig into the “cross-governmental” More for Memphis plan, solar arrays to power the zoo and more at their meeting Tuesday, Nov. 12. 

Also happening this week: The Memphis City Council holds its first post-election meeting, and the Downtown Memphis Commission wants input on design guideline changes.

The Memphis City Council’s passage of a gun-control ordinance is the next step now that voters have approved the ballot referendum.

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Also happening this week: Downtown Dining Week is back with a twist, and Good Fortune’s co-owner is on the Food Network.

“A person’s not born with Type 1 diabetes; it develops over time,” said Kathryn Sumpter, Le Bonheur’s chief of endocrinology and a Type 1 diabetes patient. “It’s an autoimmune disease, so it takes time to progress.”

Command staff, recruits, officers and their friends and community partners will paint, put in siding and install doors and windows as part of a Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis project at Imperial Avenue and Pearce Street. 

Memphis Mayor Paul Young talked about the overhaul of the Memphis Area Transit Authority during a Thursday, Oct. 31, “One Memphis” forum at LeMoyne-Owen College.

A person familiar with the company’s thinking has said xAI plans on being fully interruptible, meaning it will cut its electric load down to nothing if the TVA grid is stressed.

The district’s growth is intended to pay off the Memphis Sports and Event Center’s $100 million debt.

“We see green banks as a critical player in creating lasting change,” the U.S. Department of Energy’s Yasmin Yacoby said Tuesday.

Also happening this week: Halloween is Thursday and daylight saving time ends Sunday. Plus, this is one of only a few chances to catch three Grizz home games during a work week.

For 35 years, Pat Pope has been the office manager, the first person people see when they visit the offices on Central and the spirit of collegiality in its work.