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  • City of Memphis

    City General Services multi-plex opens at Walter Simmons site

    After years of preparation, the city of Memphis on Thursday, Oct. 25, will formally open the new city maintenance yard it has been planning through two administrations.

    By Bill Dries October 25, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Strickland says city economic development reform plan circulating

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration has a proposal for changing the city’s approach to economic development that is making the rounds with other organizations involved in attracting businesses.

    By Bill Dries October 24, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Council funds ‘public information campaign’ on referendums

    Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday to use the council’s government affairs account to fund a “public information campaign” on the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Bredesen, Blackburn chart different courses in Senate bid

    It’s not just that Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn have different views on many issues. The Democratic and Republican contenders for the U.S. Senate seat on the Nov. 6 ballot differ on what’s at stake in the statewide race.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Ballot Basics: Early voting

    Early voting in advance of the Nov. 6 election day continues through Nov. 1 at 27 locations across Shelby County. You can find those locations and hours at www.shelbyvote.com, the website of the Shelby County Election Commission, along with a sample ballot. Here are some other basics about early voting in Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    City Council to consider Overton Square hotel back-up plan

    Plans for a hotel at Overton Square would include some acreage for stacked townhomes or apartment buildings if the Memphis City Council approves an amended version of the hotel plan on Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries October 22, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Herenton says ‘gloves are off’ in his 2019 candidacy

    After nearly six months of silence since former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton announced he would run for mayor again in 2019, his aspirations came to life Wednesday as early voting began in the Nov. 6 general election.

    By Bill Dries October 21, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Glitches, suspicion overshadow heavy start of early voting

    When the first day of early voting in advance of the Nov. 6 election day had ended Wednesday, Shelby County election commissioner Norma Lester offered her verdict on how it went with a brief Facebook post. “Don’t know any other way to say it except the first day of Early Voting was absolute HELL!” she wrote. “Hoping for a better Second day.”

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Ballot Basics: Memphis’ three city charter referendums

    Here are the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot in Memphis in the order that they appear on the ballot.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2018
  • Business

    City panel begins closer look at economic development fees

    The city committee trying to build a better way of pursuing economic development will meet later this month with the two organizations that play the major roles in the existing system – the Greater Memphis Chamber and the Economic Development Growth Engine.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Fairgrounds TDZ plan goes to Nashville next month

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland's administration will take its Tourism Development Zone plan for the Fairgrounds to the Tennessee Building Commission for approval next month.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    ‘Drafting error’ in term limits question draws fire from Herenton

    A “drafting error” in the city referendum that would extend city council and mayoral term limits from two consecutive terms to three would bar former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton from running for mayor again in 2019.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Freedom Awards match turbulence of 1968 with today

    Former Vice President Joe Biden told several thousand people at the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards Wednesday, Oct. 17, that the gains made by the movement honored in the museum are “under siege.” “Once again, we need your energy,” Biden said as he accepted the award at the Orpheum theater.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Early voting in Shelby County opens in midterm elections

    Shelby County voters begin casting ballots in the last election of 2018 Wednesday, Oct. 17, as early voting opens before the Nov. 6 election day. The 27 early voting sites across Shelby County are all open from Wednesday through Nov. 1. The midterm general election cycle typically sees a higher turnout than the August county general and state and federal primary elections.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Jackson: Midterms about ‘mood to fight back’

    Rev. Jesse Jackson knows the National Civil Rights Museum well. The two-time Democratic presidential contender, close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leader of the merged civil rights groups Rainbow-PUSH has been there often since the museum opened in 1991.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Riverfront survey finds support for Riverside Drive lane closures

    Additional parking along Riverside Drive, better access to the riverfront and improved safety are more important than keeping the Downtown thoroughfare at four lanes, a new survey for the Memphis River Parks Partnership shows.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Rhodes Democratic and Republican leaders push issues

    When Jess Gaughan spoke last month at the start of an aborted debate that became a forum for Democratic Senate nominee Phil Bredesen at Rhodes College, the leader of Rhodes' Democrats didn’t get the same attention she might have.

    By Bill Dries October 15, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    November ballot questions join long line in last decade

    Voters in Shelby County have decided 52 referendums in the last decade of elections, from wine sales in food stores to the formation of suburban school systems to amendments to the Tennessee Constitution.

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Memphis firehouses start pilot foster dog program

    Two Memphis fire stations are fostering dogs in a pilot program with Memphis Animal Services that is drawing inquiries from other fire departments and requests from other firehouses in the city. The stay at the fire stations could be two to three weeks before the dogs are transported to other cities for adoption there.

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Sierra Club rips Bellefonte Nuclear proposal

    The Tennessee chapter of the Sierra Club says a proposal to end Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division’s ties to the Tennessee Valley Authority and instead buy electricity from a renovated Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Alabama is “pie in the sky.”

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Kyle rules charter referendums stay on November ballot

    Questions on three city charter changes will stay on the Nov. 6 ballot. Shelby County Chancellor Jim Kyle denied Thursday a legal motion by critics of the referendums to remove them from the ballot as misleading and in violation of state law.

    By Bill Dries October 11, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Bellefonte plan swims in political currents

    Memphis City Council members never got a chance to see the video made by backers of a move to make a renewed Bellefonte Nuclear Plant the major supplier of electrical power to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division.

    By Bill Dries October 11, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Bellefonte-powered MLGW pitch generates doubts, questions

    The former chief operating officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority wants Memphis Light Gas and Water Division to drop TVA as its electrical power supplier in five years.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    City Council approves New Bellevue development by Hein Park

    Memphis City Council members approved a New Bellevue Baptist Church sanctuary and set of 17 single-family homes Tuesday, Oct. 9, on 4.6 acres of land on the border of the Hein Park subdivision.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2018
  • City of Memphis

    Kavanaugh protest mirrors ongoing national debate

    A group of 50 protesters and a few dissenters outside the Peabody Place office building Downtown Monday evening played out the ongoing national debate over the Senate confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And it came with a brief tug of war over a megaphone at the rally organized by Ama Ehrmann that drew leaders of the Indivisible Memphis organization.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2018

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