Mayor Paul Young also talked about the return of trolleys, work toward a new Memphis Grizzlies lease at FedExForum as well as the status of the convention center hotel the city bought and other topics.

There are now six proposals compared to the three plans — including a one-year moratorium on new data centers — on the table three weeks ago.

At least two people have died in pursuits since the MSTF arrived. Advocates are calling for clearer policies and required reporting.

Also in the political roundup, Blackburn talks about affordability, Hagerty’s letter as Jack Smith testifies in the insurrection case, and the difficult mechanics of write-in voting.

Memphians wanted extra cops. Memphis wanted help with crime. Memphis didn’t want to be a prop in a national sideshow. That’s why we are where we are.

The Orange Mound location is the first of 116 planned anchor sites across the city that will provide free, public, high-speed Wi-Fi.

Jonah Neal was shot and killed by a member of the Memphis Safe Task Force, who arrived after Neal’s mother called 911 saying her son was threatening to commit suicide with a handgun. For those who were close to Neal, none of it makes sense.

Gifts from the Martin and Rhodes families, along with $1 million from First Horizon, are helping fund the clubhouse and a new six-hole short course.

The City of Memphis-funded nonprofit fired its head after he allegedly used the corporation’s credit card for personal expenses. 

Two women are teaming up on an affordable-housing development in North Memphis, another move in the momentum to bring more new homes to the city.

Ferguson Enterprises says MZX Tech failed to pay for materials used at the Macrohard data center, adding to the AI company’s growing construction disputes.

A University of Memphis professor has spent years studying public transportation systems in cities nationwide. Now, Memphis has been added to that list.

Attorneys seek a preliminary injunction to stop Task Force members from retaliating against residents who film their operations.

Build-out and activity is bustling at SpaceXAI’s DeSoto County operation, less than a mile from Memphis and unperturbed by the political winds blowing to the north. 

Also in the political roundup, a new poll shows the race for Tennessee governor tightening, and one of two standout independent candidates campaigns in Memphis.

A year since the presidential executive order that created the Memphis Safe Task Force was announced in the Oval Office, its impact and future are still being debated, touted and condemned.

“The new MATA board reveals a glaring disconnect. With one exception, they are almost entirely corporate executives and administrators who likely do not use the system they oversee.”

As residents weigh in online, debates over SpaceXAI, the Safe Task Force and city leadership collide in one highly public exchange.

SpaceXAI is moving full steam ahead while Memphis City Council wants to pump the brakes on data center expansion.

On the one-year anniversary of the executive order that created and sent the Memphis Safe Task Force to the city, relatives and friends of those rounded up in the El Corralon nightclub raid told the council that raid and others have split families.

A data center moratorium is losing steam as questions of the City Council’s authority to ban the developments mount.

According to the Memphis Police Department, reported crime has fallen by around 10,000 incidents so far this year.

Memphis Parks Director Justice Bolden provided more details on the roller derby’s future as council members pressed him about the league's displacement.

A trio of proposed ground rules for future data centers in Memphis is on a busy City Council agenda.

The company that developed pickleball courts in a Bartlett movie theater two years ago wants to do the same at the Pipkin Building in Liberty Park.