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    City names Fairgrounds private development team for Central Avenue frontage

    M&M Enterprises of Memphis will lead private redevelopment of the Fairgrounds, the city announced Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Just the facts please: What to know about the hotly disputed Tom Lee Park plan

    The Memphis River Parks Partnership's Tom Lee Park plan has prompted many questions about maintenance, funding, oversight and another road diet for Riverside Drive. Here are some answers.

    By Wayne Risher June 09, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Saving Tom Lee Park: $60 million transformation plan spurs civic battle royal

    After input from 5,300 people and 65 meetings, a Tom Lee Park transformation plan has drawn opposition from 4,000 petitioners and 2,200 Facebook followers. Will mediation settle hard feelings?

    By Wayne Risher May 20, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Sawyer calls for more rapid changes to spread of city’s prosperity

    Tami Sawyer talks about the Brandon Webber shooting, MATA funding and other issues on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast. 

    By Bill Dries June 22, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Politics Podcast: Mayoral contender Tami Sawyer

    Memphis mayoral candidate Tami Sawyer talks about “momentum” and disruption, tax hikes and the Brandon Webber shooting.

    By Natalie Van Gundy June 21, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Zoo parking reconfiguration to begin this summer

    Work begins this summer on the reconfiguration of Memphis Zoo parking designed to end the 30-year practice of parking on the Overton Park greensward.

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Hyde backs Tom Lee Park changes, likens stand off to ‘whack-a-mole’

    The philanthropist supporting the remake of Tom Lee Park says there have been a dozen changes to plans by the Memphis River Parks Partnership since the Memphis In May International Festival raised objections to the plan this spring.

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Sales tax hike proposal has enough signatures to go on October ballot

    The Shelby County Election Commission will vote Thursday afternoon on adding a sales tax increase referendum to the Oct. 3 Memphis ballot.

    By Bill Dries June 19, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Synthetic turf dog park opens in Edge District

    The off-leash area in the Edge Triangle now has synthetic turf that will stay green all year long. 

    By Michelle Corbet June 19, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Council delays Waste Connections plan vote

    A light City Council agenda Tuesday got a bit lighter with delays in decisions on a controversial Whitehaven planned development and amendments to the Unified Development Code.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    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

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