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    Voter alliance uses familiar political tools for nonpartisan outreach

    The Shelby County Voter Alliance is working after its debut effort in the presidential general election cycle to hold the interest of voters through 2021.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2020
  • Metro

    Parkinson renews call to change marijuana laws

    The chairman of the Shelby County legislative delegation to the Tennessee General Assembly talked about the issue on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast. 

    By Bill Dries November 14, 2020
  • Podcast Elections

    Vote count continues in Shelby County without fanfare

    While presidential battleground states continue to count votes, the count in Shelby County is quietly moving toward completion with a large number of provisional ballots.

    By Bill Dries November 07, 2020
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    Shelby County early and absentee voters mostly women, Memphians, over 50

    A new voting app breaks down who the early voters were. The broader turnout numbers show more than half of the county’s registered voters have already cast their ballots.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2020
  • Podcast Metro

    Growth in voters and voter turnout comes with questions

    The founder of one of the get out the vote groups working locally says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that higher turnout is part of a national trend. But detailed numbers also show ongoing problems in access to the vote.

    By Bill Dries October 24, 2020
  • PODCAST Elections

    Absentee votes will complicate election night returns

    Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips, on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, says the unofficial vote count may be tallied by midnight Nov. 3. But counting absentee ballots is a complex process.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    MLGW-TVA discussion must move faster, city council member says

    Memphis City Council member Jeff Warren on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast says there could still be an agreement on the next step in the MLGW-TVA issue. He also warns that the Tennessee Legislature could close the door on a possible MLGW exit from TVA if there isn’t a shorter timeline.

    By Bill Dries October 10, 2020
  • Podcast Business

    Gibson outlines ‘front-loaded’ redevelopment plan for South Memphis

    Business leader and developer J.W. Gibson talks about the South Memphis TIF taking in Soulsville, LeMoyne-Owen College and the old Metro Plaza on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

    By Bill Dries October 04, 2020
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    City Council grants process evolves and adjusts for pandemic

    Martavius Jones, the Memphis City Council budget committee chairman who oversaw pitches by more than 150 nonprofits seeking a share of $1.95 million, has problems with the way grants are awarded. 

    By Bill Dries September 26, 2020
  • Podcast Metro

    Van Turner: Reform vote ‘is not against law enforcement’

    Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner has seen first hand the impact of violent crime on his commission district which includes Hickory Hill. But Turner says it’s possible to back law enforcement and be opposed to a militarization of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and Memphis Police Department.

    By Bill Dries September 11, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    Mississippi Blvd. pastor calls for ‘clear, identifiable shifts’ in policing

    The pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church thinks the first part of Mayor Jim Strickland’s effort to reform the Memphis Police Department didn’t go far enough.

    By Bill Dries September 06, 2020
  • Podcast Elections

    A political valley on the road to Nov. 3

    The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast recaps some events from the past week and some of the recently certified election results are cause to go looking through some numbers from the historic 1991 city elections.

    By Bill Dries August 30, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    City Parks director says parks seeing ‘renaissance’ in pandemic

    Nick Walker, who recently went from interim to permanent director of the city’s division of parks and neighborhoods, talked about the change and the move to a parks master plan on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

    By Bill Dries August 22, 2020
  • Podcast Elections

    Cohen says Biden-Harris ticket should campaign in Memphis

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the city's Democratic Congressman also talked about his recent primary win on the August ballot, the political benchmark it maintained and gave his thoughts on who might succeed him down the political road.

    By Bill Dries August 14, 2020
  • Podcast On the Record

    The August Election Roundup: What Happened and Why

    The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast features a 10-minute roundup of what the Thursday vote count means.

    By Bill Dries August 08, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    Police force of 2,800 key to community policing, city experts say

    Phyllis Betts and Richard Janikowski have set a new bar for growing the Memphis Police Department ranks to 2,800. They talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about calls for more police amid calls locally for changing the fundamentals of policing and even the share of government funds devoted to policing.

    By Bill Dries August 02, 2020
  • Podcast Metro

    Billingsley says Ford-Ray dueling letters ‘pretty antagonistic’

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the County Commission chairman says the differences between the two don't appear to extend to the rest of the commission. Mark Billingsley also said he hopes to move to lift the county hiring budget freeze once there is a reconciliation of the budget approved by the commission last month after rejecting Mayor Lee Harris's original proposal.

    By Bill Dries July 25, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    Easter-Thomas: ‘Something missing’ in way police recruited

    Memphis City Council member talks on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about her push to remove from the November ballot a residency referendum that would allow police and firefighters to live outside the county.

    By Bill Dries July 17, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    Morgan says local reaction to George Floyd still awaits real legislative police reform

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, City Council member Worth Morgan talks about his possible move to take police out of the city's civil service system and calls a move to cancel the November referendum allowing the city to hire police from outside Shelby County "the ultimate hypocrisy."

    By Bill Dries July 11, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    MLGW-TVA decision enters critical phase

    The public comment period on the first draft of the study that plays a crucial role in whether the city-owned utility stays with the federal agency ends Monday.

    By Bill Dries July 04, 2020
  • Podcast City of Memphis

    Long-term problems drive protests, nonprofit leader says

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Sarah Lockridge-Steckel talked about the frustrations that prompted local nonprofits to issue a call for action.

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2020
  • Podcast Podcasts

    The People’s Convention one year later

    One of the organizers of the 2019 People’s Convention says while a lot has happened since the gathering ahead of the 2019 city elections, not a lot has changed including calls in June of 2019 for a change in police policies.

    By Bill Dries June 15, 2020
  • Podcast Podcasts

    Beyond protest and within leadership: next steps from the George Floyd protests in Memphis

    Bobby White, a native Memphian with experience behind the scenes in local government and politics, talks about what more than a week of daily protests in the city means for future decisions on how the police do their jobs.

    By Bill Dries June 06, 2020

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