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. 

“The easiest way to explain is that for the first time in the city’s history, we’ve created what is basically an Office of Arts and Culture,” said an official involved in the hire.

The sales-tax growth captured Downtown showed city taxpayers will not bail out Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid, the Renasant Convention Center and other Downtown projects for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hickory Hill One Memphis forum is the seventh since Mayor Paul Young took office this past January.

Local and state leaders hope the fourth annual Stomp the City Iconic Awards Show will help reduce crime and gun violence in Memphis. 

The newly confirmed board voted unanimously to suspend the cuts the previous board had approved on Sept. 24.

Following a stroll down the narrow pedestrian walkway of the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge, Bill Lee and other elected leaders got a briefing Tuesday, Oct. 22, on plans for the $800 million bridge to be completed in 2030.

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Politics is nothing new when it comes to projects like “America’s River Crossing” in Downtown Memphis. The circa-1949 bridge it would replace saw plenty of it when it came time to consider its name.

Unopposed for his second term on the Germantown Board of Education, Curry reflected on the past four years and what he sees ahead.

The Young administration recently decided to pay $30 million to save the Downtown Memphis Sheraton from the auction block. The MATA overhaul could be just as expensive and resonate over just as long of a time period. 

People with backgrounds in finance, urban planning and “route optimization” were among those recently appointed to the reconfigured MATA board. 

Also happening this week: A street is renamed for for the first Black athlete to join the Tigers.

The 33rd annual Freedom Awards went to Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, Howard University professor and attorney Sherrilyn Ifill and civil rights activist Xernona Clayton.

The Memphis City Council is also taking a look at the new building code that requires some schools buildings to have storm shelters to see if there are less expensive ways to meet the standard.

Mayor Paul Young told council members in a Tuesday, Oct. 15, committee discussion that the immediate task is to find short-term funding for MATA to avoid a set of bus route cuts and employee layoffs the old MATA board approved that take effect Nov. 3.