Memphis City Council members advance an ordinance for party buses. Supporters of the ordinance cite a lack of regulations and public disturbance problems for Downtown patrons.

A charter amendment that would require candidates for Memphis mayor and City Council to live in the city at least a year before election day could be headed to voters in 2024. 

In the summer of 2022, the price of natural gas spiked. While the rest of the companies interested in MLGW’s power supply contract adjusted their prices, TVA was still using pricing prior to that time. Their bid came in lower, and everyone else’s came in higher — much higher. 

The Memphis City Council could consider boosting Memphis Police Department pay by $15 million and it could take a tax increase to do it. 

The ordinance would require a permit for the drivers of the “entertainment transportation vehicles.”

The proposed ordinance comes up for council consideration as two contenders in the 2023 race for mayor have filed lawsuits over the current residency requirement.

The County Commission vote approves a nonbinding piece of legislation, but it’s a show of support for residents and groups such as Memphis Community Against Pollution. 

Memphis will spend $42 million to replace all 77,000 of its high-pressure sodium streetlights by the end of the year — a move that is equivalent to taking about 10,000 cars off the road. 

The Shelby County Health Department commissioned the cancer cluster study last fall to learn about historical cancer rates in a South Memphis neighborhood. 

Just City, a criminal justice reform organization that has often drawn Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s ire, has offered to help the City of Memphis publish more criminal justice data. 

Water damage throughout decades has weakened structural supports and plaster, much like the cathedral’s shrinking congregation.

The Council Scorecard tracks final votes on a set of five ordinances with a vote one other one delayed. 

MLGW has processed bills for more than 34,000 users who were behind on payments because of faulty meters. That’s about 8% of MLGW electricity customers. 

An early unaffiliated poll shows Memphis NAACP President Van Turner, former mayor Willie Herenton and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. tightly bunched at the top of the crowded Memphis mayoral race.

The utility already has a five-year, $1 billion infrastructure investment plan, but if Shelby County is to be prepared for a rapidly changing energy market, MLGW President Doug McGowen said they need to think further ahead. 

The call comes as Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has called for a $52-million, 10,000-seat soccer stadium to be built on the city-owned land where the Coliseum now stands.

A line added to a page on the Shelby County Election Commission’s website the last day of February has turned this year’s race for Memphis mayor upside down.

Strickland says his call Friday for more public data about court decisions on bail and sentencing would be part of existing websites outside of the city government’s data hub. 

Any change in electricity provider could require changes in that transmission system, MLGW leadership says.

The library had been closed since Feb. 2, when Memphis Police Department officer Geoffrey Redd was shot there.

The Mobility Center, scheduled to open in July, already has four parking spaces that are equipped for the installation of electric chargers for public use.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland delivered a letter to Shelby County officials questioning low bail and weak sentences and asking for bail-setting forms and judgments to be posted online. 

A small, but patient, group of South Memphis residents concerned about a cancer-causing pollutant in their neighborhood waited five hours to address the Shelby County Board of Commissioners yesterday. 

The lawsuit filed by Alicia Franklin alleges negligence by the city regarding her alleged September 2021 sexual assault by Cleotha Henderson, aka Abston.

The most controversial ordinance barring police from low-level traffic stops was delayed Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Strickland administration opposed and questioned some of the measures in a four-page memo.

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