The last council scorecard of 2021 looks at two decisions that will likely be on the first scorecard tracking critical city council votes in 2022.

The latest contenders in the May county primaries to pull qualifying petitions include a Democratic challenger to County Mayor Lee Harris. 

During each season, the couple will help 13 local business owners spruce up their new shops with a minimum budget of $377 — the amount it cost them to fix up their storefront before it opened in the South Main Arts District in September 2016. 

The Memphis City Council approved the property transfer for a token $1 payment Tuesday, Dec. 21, on a unanimous vote.

The delay by the city council came after Calvin Williams said he’s paid for his mistakes but insisted he never “mismanaged anything in government.”

The delay came after some council members opposed to the ballot question pushed for a separate vote on first reading Tuesday, Dec. 21.

Some Memphis restaurants are temporarily shutting down because of staff members who’ve tested positive for coronavirus, and at least one is going to takeout only for now.

‘We can do green, we can do pink, we can do red, we can really do anything,’ Shane Soefker said of Clark Tower’s new lights. ‘We’ll have lots of opportunity to do different things with different holidays and initiatives.’

The first-reading vote to put the item on the August 2022 ballot comes at the last council meeting of 2021.

Pianist who survived being shot five times holds recitals in hopes of inspiring people to see something positive beyond the violence in the city. 

The MPD has gone from 2,449 officers a decade ago to slightly more than 1,900 today. The problem is national but also unique to Memphis in some ways.

Family, friends and community leaders honor Young Dolph during public memorial Thursday, Dec. 16 at the FedEx Forum.

Shelby County Health Department Director Michelle Taylor said the holidays could be to blame.

Utility workers for the city-owned utility get pay raises the next four years under the compromise that scrubbed a city council session to break the labor contract impasse. 

The City Council Scorecard examines the procedural votes that brought a controversial commercial development project and a key intersection back to life after the council killed the project in November on a tie vote.

Althea Greene opened her bid for the District 7 commission seat by saying Tennessee’s new open carry gun law is meant to increase violence and killings. Candidates can begin pulling and filing qualifying petitions in the May primaries, including the commission races, starting Monday.

A coalition led by the University of Memphis was selected as a finalist in the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge and awarded a $500,000 planning grant. 

It’s the fourth officer-involved shooting in Memphis and Shelby County this year and the 53rd officer-involved shooting in Tennessee this year.

The honorary street name was approved by the Memphis City Council at a meeting earlier this month. 

A special Memphis City Council meeting called to resolve a labor contract impasse was settled before the 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, start of the session.

The seven-year-old venue beneath a manmade hill on Tom Lee Park’s north end is a separate project from the $61 million renovation of the park. 

A proposed lake off Mud Island would be north of I-40 and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. 

The Tuesday afternoon meeting should be short with the labor contract impasse the only item on the agenda. The meeting technically continues last week’s meeting, which was recessed to allow for the special meeting.

On “Behind The Headlines,” the bus transit system’s CEO and its new chief of staff say the ride-share service in the Whitehaven, Boxtown and Westwood areas is being used much more than the bus route system in the area was. 

A Thursday, Dec. 9, joint session of Memphis City Council members and Shelby County commissioners drew sparse attendance from the two bodies.