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    Freedom Award goes virtual at National Civil Rights Museum

    The National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards Friday, Dec. 11, will be basically a “greatest hits” online moment in this year of the pandemic.

    By Bill Dries December 14, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Tom Lee Park project begins virtually

    City of Memphis and Memphis River Parks Partnership officials hold virtual groundbreaking on Cutbank Bluff, the first phase of a $60 million overhaul of Tom Lee Park.

    By Wayne Risher December 09, 2020
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    ‘Bluff City Law,’ AutoZone incentives make ‘Pork Report’

    The Memphis Regional Megasite made the organization’s top 3 in its 15-year list of worst government waste.

    By Elle Perry December 08, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Operation Warm: 300 students outfitted with new coats

    National nonprofit, FedEx and Memphis Athletic Ministries partner to distribute the coats across the city of Memphis.

    By Christin Yates December 08, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Drag racing penalties would go up, car seizures possible under proposed bill

    Drag racing would still be a misdemeanor under the legislation proposed by two Shelby County legislators. But it would be a higher grade misdemeanor. The City Council will also see some resolutions on its agenda supporting the bill.

    By Bill Dries December 07, 2020
  • Shelby County

    Four local nonprofits to receive Award of Excellence from Gov. Lee

    Christ Community Health Services, the Mid-South Food Bank, Las Americas and MICAH will be honored for outstanding service in a very unusual year. 

    By Christin Yates December 11, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Sign of support: Donated billboard space sends a ‘shop local’ message

    Three billboard companies are donating digital billboard space to encourage Memphians to “Shop Local 901.” The colorful message will be displayed on about 15 billboards about 140,000 times a week this holiday season.

    By Tom Bailey December 07, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Final piece of Raleigh Springs Civic Center near completion

    The new Raleigh branch library is set to open Dec. 14, replacing the 54-year-old location at 3157 Powers Rd., which is closed as the transition begins to its future home.

    By Omer Yusuf December 05, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    City combines regular and recycled garbage pickup to deal with COVID absences

    The city estimates a quarter of solid waste crews have the COVID virus and are in quarantine.

    By Bill Dries December 07, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Food Bank CEO: We’ve seen people who’ve ‘never been in a food line’

    Leaders of the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association and Mid-South Food Bank talked on “Behind The Headlines” about how the pandemic has changed their distribution models. 

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    For Terri Lee Freeman, leaving rights museum ‘a personal decision’

    National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman is leaving in February to lead a museum in Baltimore. She arrived at the helm of the museum just as the city’s new activism began to surface.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    City Council Scorecard: Masks, decorum, bottled water and lobbying

    The next-to-last council meeting of the year saw some votes change, the simple become complex and the obvious spelled out. There was also a rare slip that saw an item that appeared to fail win approval after all.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Decorum guide gets modest tweaking as council discovers limits of disciplining one of its own

    Council Chairwoman Patrice Robinson said council members who behave badly, as council member Edmund Ford Sr. did two weeks ago, can’t be removed or suspended. And restoring order is “a question of judgment” by the chairperson.

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2020
  • Health Care

    City Council unites on statewide mask mandate

    The council voted unanimously Tuesday to urge a statewide mask mandate, and several council members said their earlier vote against the city’s mask ordinance was wrong.

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    City lobbying disclosure voted down by City Council

    The measure by council member Chase Carlisle was one vote short of the seven needed. It failed after a council debate that included one council member remembering his own brush with corruption charges. Others argued the proposal was arbitrary and cumbersome.

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Council bottled water resolution bobs back to surface

    A voting miscue Tuesday was reversed Wednesday with the passage of the resolution that directs the mayor to draw up a plan to end the use of any city money to buy bottled water. 

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Survey seeks community input on next Memphis police director

    A community survey on the next Memphis police director asks for feedback from people who live and work in the city.

    Related story: Task force recommends Memphis police number of 2,500

    By Yolanda Jones December 01, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Task force recommends Memphis police number of 2,500

    The number is smaller than the ranks of 2,800 previously pushed by Mayor Jim Strickland and Police Director Michael Rallings.

    Related story: Survey seeks community input on next Memphis police director

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Council ethics complaint against Ford to be dropped

    The outburst by City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. two weeks ago still raises questions about how to apply rules of conduct to elected council members. And it’s a discussion past councils have had about Ford and others on the body.

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2020
  • Real Estate

    Laser tag, axe throwing, bowling headed to former fairgrounds

    A 40,000-square-foot entertainment and arcade venue called High 5 has signed a letter of intent to be at Liberty Park. And that doesn’t include High 5’s planned, 25,000-square-foot miniature golf course. 

    By Tom Bailey December 01, 2020
  • East Memphis

    Black Friday shopping not as robust in unusual year

    Both e-commerce and early shopping could be contributors to the smaller-than-normal crowds, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic.

    By Christin Yates November 27, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Coronavirus: Eight deaths and 258 new cases reported in Shelby County

    As of 5 p.m. Monday, Nov.23, the Health Department reported that 89% of the area’s acute care hospital beds were occupied.

    By Linda A. Moore November 25, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Big holiday parades off the table for Memphis – and you know why

    Concerns about the spread of the coronavirus forced organizers to cancel the Whitehaven Christmas Parade and the Memphis Holiday Parade.

    By Linda A. Moore November 24, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Annual Thanksgiving dinner for homeless goes mobile

    MemFeast, the annual Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and those in need, had to change the way it distributes meals because of the pandemic. Six churches will serve meals from food trucks in their parking lots.

    By Yolanda Jones November 22, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Motion filed to begin process of moving Forrest remains

    No location has been decided on for the re-interment, according to SCV leader Lee Millar. But court documents suggest the remains and equestrian statue of Forrest removed from Health Sciences Park could be bound for a new National Confederate Museum in Columbia, Tn. 

    By Bill Dries November 20, 2020

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