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    Capital projects top Harris budget proposal to County Commission

    The Wednesday, April 26, presentation by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris includes a multi-year $350 million funding commitment toward a rebuild of the Regional One Health campus and money for new high schools.

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2023
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    Harris, Wright pitch Regional One rebuild financing

    Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris takes a proposal to the County Commission next week to fund the county’s share of the $700-million capital project. Commissioner Mick Wright says he hopes that can be coupled with a property tax reduction.

    By Bill Dries April 18, 2023
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    Shelby County Commission buys land for Cordova fire station, approves Kerrville solar array

    The commission took action on the two project as part of a light agenda Monday, April 17. Meanwhile, the county continues to search for another fire station site in southeast Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries April 17, 2023
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    New Cordova fire house, Kerrville solar array top county commission agenda

    The Shelby County Commission votes Monday, April 17, on a contract for a new county fire house in a part of Corova de-annexed by the city of Memphis in 2021.

    By Bill Dries April 17, 2023
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    Shelby County invests in transitional housing for Black transgender women

    My Sistah’s House provides housing, advocacy and resource assistance for the Memphis area’s LGBTQ community with an emphasis on Black transgender women, who are reported to experience homelessness at a rate of more than five times the national average.

    By Aisling Mäki April 14, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Adviser says more locations, temporary workers can end County Clerk’s problems

    The new special adviser to Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert says she has some “concrete ideas” about how to end lines outside the office locations.

    By Bill Dries April 12, 2023
  • South Memphis

    New EPA rules could cut EtO emissions by 80% in South Memphis

    However, it could take years for the proposed regulations, which would govern emissions of a cancer-causing chemical, to be finalized and enforced. 

    By Keely Brewer April 11, 2023
  • City of Memphis

    Renovated Cossitt Library reopens today

    The long wait ends with more than 10,000 books, an upstairs performance space, digital studios for podcasts and a cafe.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Shelby County Commission could reappoint Pearson Wednesday

    Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, and former State Rep. Justin Jones were expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives last week. 

    By Samuel Hardiman April 09, 2023
  • Shelby County

    County Commission to weigh reinstating Pearson to state House

    “I have heard from my constituents, people across the county, and state as well as Republicans and Democrats, so I will be voting to reappoint Justin Pearson,” said one member of the County Commission. 

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2023
  • Public Safety

    Family of Gershun Freeman files lawsuit against Shelby County, officials

    The wrongful death lawsuit was filed April 4 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee by Gershun Freeman’s wife, Nicole Freeman, on behalf of herself, their child and other wrongful-death beneficiaries. 

    By Julia Baker April 05, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Future of Metro Plaza redevelopment up in the air

    The Shelby County Commission postponed indefinitely a plan to buy the Metro Shopping Plaza, which is on the northwest corner of E.H. Crump Boulevard and Danny Thomas Boulevard.

    By Bill Dries April 04, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Health department hires consultants to help with air monitoring

    Last summer, the Shelby County Health Department’s air monitoring branch was operating with only two employees, and the State of Tennessee gave the local program until June of this year to resolve the issue. 

    By Keely Brewer April 04, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Shelby County Commission appoints Wanda Halbert’s special adviser

    The Shelby County Commission chose former city council member Janet Hooks to be Wanda Halbert’s special adviser.

    By Bill Dries April 05, 2023
  • Shelby County

    County commission looking at votes on DA’s office, among other agenda items

    Also on the commission’s Monday, April 3, agenda is funding for more prosecutors and a return to a plan to buy the old Metro Plaza Shopping Center in South Memphis for up to $3.5 million.

    By Bill Dries April 03, 2023
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    Germantown to consider $17 million in improvement projects for the suburb

    Among the 32 projects in the 2023-24 proposed budget are accessibility improvements at City Hall, a new roof and other upgrades at Germantown Community Theater and a number of school, intersection and road projects. 

    By Abigail Warren April 03, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Lexie Carter elected local Democratic Party chairwoman

    Carter claimed the chairmanship in the most Democratic county in the state Saturday, April 1, by three votes over rival Jesse Huseth.

    By Bill Dries April 01, 2023
  • State Government

    Judge grants temporary injunction on ‘drag-ban’ law

    The new state law, which prohibits drag shows where children might be present, would have gone into effect Saturday, April 1. 

    By Ben Wheeler April 01, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Halbert: ‘I’m not going anywhere ... Nobody asked anybody else to quit’

    Wanda Halbert met March 29 with county commissioners who pressed for specifics on a lease at Poplar Plaza and an opening date for the Riverdale Road office. One commissioner pushed his call for her to resign.

    By Bill Dries March 29, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Third of recent offenders released without bail

    Approximately 31% of the 1,279 bonds set between Feb. 15 and March 15 resulted in the release on recognizance, or release without bail, according to a report presented during a Shelby County Commission Law Enforcement, Corrections & Courts Committee meeting Wednesday, March 29.

    By Julia Baker March 29, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Health Department study finds no cancer clusters near EtO producer

    The Shelby County Health Department shared the results of its first-ever cancer incidence study on Tuesday, March 28. It found no evidence of cancer clusters near a South Memphis facility that emits a cancer-causing chemical called ethylene oxide, or EtO. 

    By Keely Brewer March 28, 2023
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    Your questions about Wanda Halbert’s office, answered

    Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert goes before county commissioners Wednesday, March 29. Here are some of the basics of the controversy that has been ongoing for about a year.

    By Bill Dries March 28, 2023
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    Poplar Plaza, Wanda Halbert have been discussing office space since September

    An email chain indicates representatives from Poplar Plaza have been asking Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert since at least September 2022 about relocating the clerk’s office space in the shopping center.

    Related story:

    Your questions about Wanda Halbert’s office, answered

    By Bill Dries March 28, 2023
  • Shelby County

    GOP chairman returns with call for party broader than Trump

    Cary Vaughn was re-elected Shelby County Republican chairman at the local party’s biennial convention, with a call for new blood and a focus on common ground.

    By Bill Dries March 26, 2023
  • Shelby County

    Mid-South nonprofits grapple with region’s hunger challenges

    The Memphis Anti-Hunger Conference offered local nonprofits an opportunity to learn more about how hunger impacts the region, hear from partners working to address food insecurity and find ways to partner with the goal of ending hunger in Memphis. 

    By Aisling Mäki March 25, 2023

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