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    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
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    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
  • Business

    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
  • Neighborhoods

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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
  • 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

    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

    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

    Tennessee elections coordinator rules out instant-runoff voting for 2019 Memphis elections

    Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins ruled Friday the Shelby County Election Commission cannot use instant-runoff voting in this October's city of Memphis elections. 

    By Bill Dries February 15, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    HUD wants Memphis to return or ‘de-obligate’ $17M in affordable-housing funds

    The federal Housing and Urban Development wants Memphis to pay back millions spent in one of the biggest take-backs ever proposed by HUD.

    By Bill Dries February 15, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    City Hall pushes coexistence of Tom Lee Park redevelopment and Memphis In May festival

    City Hall says a redeveloped Tom Lee Park can be done in coexistence with the Memphis In May International Festival and that the festival will likely have to move out of the park temporarily in 2020.

    By Bill Dries February 12, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Essays on Memphis ‘Black Struggle’ offer counter-narrative

    A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2019
  • Business

    Funeral arrangements set for Mike Bowen

    Services will be Saturday for Memphis businessman Mike Bowen, who died in a car crash in Costa Rica Saturday. 

    By Abigail Warren February 11, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    ‘Maximizing Manhood Symposium’ will challenge perceptions of manhood

    Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., project consultant Lakethen Mason invited 36 black leaders to share their vision for young men in Memphis.

    By Jared Boyd February 13, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    City-county recycling drive rounds up 50,000 used tires

    More than 50,000 used tires were recycled over two days last month in a $100,000 city-county tire drive.

    By Bill Dries February 09, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Politics Podcast: Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland on Electrolux

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks about whether Electrolux was a good deal with City Hall given the incentives the city, county and state governments put up several years ago to land the plant that is leaving is just under two years.

    By Natalie Van Gundy February 11, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Memphis 3.0 plan seeks to change development concepts

    Putting together the comprehensive 20-year Memphis 3.0 development plan required trying to change some ideas about what it means to encourage development in very different parts of a diverse city.

    By Bill Dries February 07, 2019

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