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    Council delays Graceland vote, warns EPE against changing terms

    Memphis City Council members delayed a vote Tuesday setting up Tourism Development Zone funding to partially finance an $80 million expansion of Graceland.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Judge says MLGW must pay fired worker who protested statue removal

    A federal judge has ruled that Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division must rehire and give back pay to an employee it fired for protesting Confederate statues' removal.

    By Linda A. Moore June 27, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    City Council returns to stalled Graceland development deal

    Memphis City Council members return Tuesday to Graceland’s expansion plans, specifically a delayed development plan outlining the terms of the expansion in Whitehaven.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    City Council challengers make Juneteenth campaign stops

    With several Juneteenth observances in different part of the city Saturday, candidates in the October Memphis elections were moving among them and other events on their summer political calendars.

    By Bill Dries June 16, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Universal Life city service center renamed for Fred Davis

    The city's minority business service center in the recently renovated and reopened Universal Life Building has been renamed the Fred L. Davis Innovation Center.

    By Bill Dries June 14, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Stand for Children continues to push for city funding of SCS beyond pre-K

    Returning some amount of city government funding to Shelby County Schools would not necessarily mean a return to state requirements to keep that funding level.

    By Bill Dries June 14, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Lee pushes re-entry programs amid reaction to violent crime

    A two-day visit to Memphis by Gov. Bill Lee included signing a bill dropping state fees for expungements. The move comes against a backdrop of reaction to the weekend slaying of financial executive Glenn Cofield and a rise in homicides compared to this time last year.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Aretha Franklin’s birthplace home closer to preservation plan

    There are no grand plans for Aretha Franklin’s birthplace home in Memphis, but a judge is ready to approve a receiver’s plan to stabilize and preserve it for potential reuse later. 

    By Elle Perry June 11, 2019
  • Business

    Memphis Child Advocacy Center opens expanded campus

    The nonprofit works with other community agencies to help children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse get through the trauma and heal.

    By Christin Yates June 11, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Diocese of Memphis bishop orders review of church files on abuse allegations

    Memphis Catholic Bishop David P. Talley has ordered a review of church files on allegations of child sexual abuse made against priests.

    By Bill Dries June 11, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Criminal justice reform part of Gov. Lee’s Memphis itinerary this week

    Gov. Bill Lee is in Memphis Tuesday into Wednesday morning for a series of stops, including signing the bill that eliminates the state fee to expunge criminal records.

    By Bill Dries June 10, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Whitehaven residents lobby for Graceland expansion

    Elvis Presley Enterprises leaders met with Whitehaven residents Monday to ask them to support EPE in its dispute with the city of Memphis over funding for expansion plans at Graceland.

    By Elle Perry June 04, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    People’s Convention highlights different approaches to achieving goals

    The People’s Convention over the weekend offered indications that different points of view remain on how to blend protest with conventional political involvement. 

    By Bill Dries June 11, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Agape targets families fighting cycle of poverty

    The child and family services agency has expanded efforts to reach both children and parents before a foster parent option must be considered.

    By Christin Yates June 09, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    MICAH organizer says quest for equity larger than who wins elections

    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.

    By Bill Dries June 07, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Politics Podcast: MICAH’s lead organizer on change

    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.

    By Natalie Van Gundy June 07, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    List of contenders in Memphis elections nears 100

    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.

    By Bill Dries June 06, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Short-term aquifer effort moves to long-term objectives

    As a University of Memphis effort to better map the Memphis aquifer's breaches gets underway, others calling attention to threats to the underground water source want to see a groundwater authority for the region.

    By Bill Dries June 07, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Greenspace taking wait-and-see approach to sell Forrest statue in wake of court ruling

    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. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Budget votes breeze through City Council, Beale Street cover charge extended

    The City Council stuck with a compromise 4% pay raise for police and firefighters and kept the city property tax rate at $3.19, but also extended a controversial cover charge for Beale Street on summer weekends. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Appeals court sides with Memphis over sale of Confederate monuments

    The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization has no case to preserve two Memphis parks and the Confederate monuments removed from them in 2017.

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    People’s Convention gets RSVP from 18 candidates for Saturday gathering

    Two mayoral contenders are among those confirmed for the South Memphis gathering built around a platform and endorsements in some, if not all, of the races on the Oct. 3 Memphis ballot.

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    City Council could finalize 2019-2020 budget Tuesday

    Two council members expressed concerns last week about the Strickland administration's "brilliant at the basics" philosophy, but that probably won't affect votes on a 4% raise for police and firefighters. 

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Review of MLGW-TVA relationship could mean ‘variety of changes’

    A member of the advisory group to MLGW on such a plan says on "Behind the Headlines" the complex undertaking could hold several changes beyond who supplies wholesale electric power to the local utility.

    By Bill Dries May 31, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    New zoo president and CEO remembers past, looks to future

    A new master plan and renovations to the west end of the Memphis Zoo are among the plans of its new president and CEO, who has returned to his hometown. 

    By John Klyce June 03, 2019

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