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    Pink Palace bicentennial exhibit follows Memphis history, defines its identity

    A new exhibit on the city's bicentennial combines some elements of the city's history in a display that is also about what is means to be a Memphian. The exhibit at the Memphis Pink Palace Museum runs through October.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2019
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    Hardaway legislation would charge police with felony for turning off body cameras

    Charging police who turn off body cameras: What state lawmaker G.A. Hardaway, the Memphis Police Association and the ACLU say about the proposed bill under which officers statewide would be charged with a felony.

    By Yolanda Jones March 04, 2019
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    National Women’s March co-chair keynotes NAACP Freedom Fund Luncheon

    Tamika Mallory comes to Memphis after the third Women's March in January drew criticism and allegations of anti-Semitic comments by Mallory and other march organizers.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Council to review fine print, recent amendments to Memphis 3.0 plan

    A review of the Memphis 3.0 plan tops Tuesday's City Council agenda, along with new residential development in Cooper-Young and a neighborhood near the Fairgrounds.

    By Bill Dries March 05, 2019
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    Memphis @ 200

    A yearlong series of stories will chronicle the past, present and future of Memphis as part of the city's bicentennial celebration in 2019.

    By Ron Maxey March 04, 2019
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    Council moves deeper into consideration of MLGW changes

    Memphis City Council members are to meet with TVA officials in Chattanooga to talk more about changes at MLGW. Meanwhile, there is discussion of other possible changes at the utility.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2019
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    Mancini says Republicans have plenty to renounce

    Tennessee Democratic Party chairwoman Mary Mancini says physical confrontations in the recent State Capitol protest are not justified. During a Memphis visit Thursday, she also talked about the crushing Democratic losses statewide in the 2018 elections and redistricting reforms.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Fourth Strickland budget plan marks shift in recovery of city finances

    An early look at Mayor Jim Strickland's still forming budget proposal to come in April shows in 2026 the city will be paying $40 million less in debt. Meanwhile, the budget plan will mark the city's final of five installments toward an annual pension liability payment estimated at around $78 million going forward.

    By Bill Dries February 27, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Tennessee Court of Appeals hears Memphis monuments case

    The city of Memphis and Memphis Greenspace Inc. locked horns with the Sons of Confederate Veterans again Tuesday , this time before the Tennessee Court of Appeals in their dispute over the removal of Confederate statues from former city parks.

    By Sam Stockard February 26, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Mississippi River at Memphis moves to 41-foot crest in a week

    The Mississippi River at Memphis is expected to crest at 41 feet next week, the fourth-highest level ever recorded on the Memphis gauge. Flood control measures move to checking levees starting Tuesday, with the river level well below the record 1937 flood and the 2011 flood.

    By Bill Dries February 26, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Darrius Stewart family vows to keep fighting, appeal ruling

    A month after a federal judge dismissed the City of Memphis from a civil lawsuit filed by the parents of Darrius Stewart, attorneys representing his parents have filed a notice of appeal in hopes of reversing the summary judgment. 

    By Yolanda Jones February 26, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Planning and Zoning 101 reveals code quirks

    Josh Whitehead discusses the evolution of planning and development in Memphis on The Daily Memphian Politics podcast.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Cohen urges Lee to remove Forrest bust in capitol

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis says despite differences over the capitol's Forrest bust, he has a better relationship so far with Republican Gov. Bill Lee than Lee's predecessor, Bill Haslam.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Strickland, Herenton campaigns come to life with sparks

    Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton takes a few jabs at current Mayor Jim Strickland, who says he loves the smell of freshly poured asphalt, as both hold campaign events on the same night. Meanwhile, developer Chase Carlisle says he will make a bid for a super district council seat as District 6 council contender Davin Clemons opens his campaign.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    MLGW to talk with other electric providers as it weighs long-term future with TVA

    MLGW president and CEO J.T. Young says the utility will talk with some alternate electric providers as it weighs a long-range examination of ending or altering its 80-year relationship with TVA. 

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    New round of anti-blight lawsuits by city lists addresses as defendants

    The city is taking 29 blighted properties to Environmental Court, and in some cases the defendant is the address of the property as the city seeks to find the real owner. The new provision in the state law allows the move, which sets the stage for the appointment of a receiver by the court.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    MLGW water rates go up 3 percent, gas and electric hikes rejected

    The plan for multiyear MLGW gas, electric and water rate hikes was rejected Tuesday by the Memphis City Council. It's the second year the council has gone instead for smaller one-year rate hikes – this time a 3 percent hike in water rates starting next month.

    By Bill Dries February 20, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Tom Lee Park plans get close look from council

    The Memphis River Parks Partnership plan for a redevelopment of Tom Lee Park got a close look and lots of questions as well as a few suggestions from city council members this week.

    By Bill Dries February 21, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    South Cordova de-annexation milestones

    With the City Council vote Tuesday to de-annex South Cordova, a timeline begins toward its separation from Memphis. Here are some milestones of the process.

    By Bill Dries December 14, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    City Council gives final OK to South Cordova de-annexation

    The Memphis City Council gave final approval to the de-annexation of South Cordova Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries February 20, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Court grants another extension for plans to save Aretha Franklin birthplace

    Efforts to preserve the birthplace of soul legend Aretha Franklin got another court extension Tuesday, with Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandridge giving parties until April 23 to shore up plans.

    By Ron Maxey February 19, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    New study lays out path to MLGW cutting historic ties to TVA

    A study commissioned by the environmental group Friends of the Earth charts a course for MLGW to sever its historic ties with TVA in five years without the cost of building new transmission lines for electric power from new sources.

    By Bill Dries February 18, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Sugarmon was part of political vanguard, legal challenge to segregation

    Russell Sugarmon, civil rights icon, political strategist and retired judge who fought racial injustice in his hometown of Memphis, dies at 89.

    By Bill Dries, Yolanda Jones February 19, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Vote on MLGW rate hike mixes with talk of TVA split

    Memphis City Council members will try again Tuesday to make a final decision on Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division's rate hikes in an atmosphere that has come to also include questions about the future of the utility’s 80-year relationship with the Tennessee Valley Authority.

    By Bill Dries February 19, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Council expected to take final vote on South Cordova de-annexation

    The last in a set of five de-annexations, South Cordova, goes to the Memphis City Council Tuesday for a final vote and probably more debate than the council had with the four other de-annexations.

    By Bill Dries February 19, 2019

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