The ordinance, sponsored by by Republican Commissioner Mick Wright and Democratic Commissioner Van D. Turner Jr., allows people with criminal histories to volunteer to serve. 

COVID gutted the distribution networks for street gold like shoes, belts and sleeping bags. But Pam Scarbrough of Community Alliance for the Homeless found a way around it.

Republican U.S. Representative says it’s “a seat at the table on issues such as taxes, trade and healthcare” for constituents in West Tennessee and the Mid-South region.

Weirich, a Republican who has been in office since 2011, is running for reelection. She faces Democrat Steve Mulroy in the August county general election.

The Memphis City Council members could close out its 2022 budget season Tuesday, June 7, with a set of votes on a new property tax rate and operating and capital budgets.

The clerk’s office has been late in mailing the plates and stickers for most of this year, with complaints increasing.

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County Commission approves budget specifics in marathon session

The series of votes in a marathon County Commission session Monday reflect some budget amendments and changes to various line items. 

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County answers complaints by approving funds to mail license plates

The commission voted to fund a new voting system with both touch-screen machines with a paper trail as well as hand-marked paper ballots. 

A final vote Monday, June 6, on a county property tax rate of $3.39 is among the set of final votes that could end the county’s budget season ahead of the July 1 start of the new fiscal year.

He allegedly shot and killed a woman outside the facility in Horn Lake.

The City Council Scorecard follows the maneuvering as the council puts a ballot question on the August ballot that might look familiar to Memphis voters.

A Shelby County chancellor has ruled that the county commissioner is eligible to run for reelection despite a question of whether her house is in Fayette County.

The Shelby County Commission Scorecard tracks how the commission votes went at the May 23 session on two key parts of the 2022 county budget season.

A call to end county primary elections draws fire during the “On The Record” podcast as Democrats tout their countywide slate in Germantown and Republican mayoral nominee Worth Morgan opens his campaign headquarters in East Memphis.

Harold Collins served two terms on the City Council, leaving in 2015 to run for Memphis mayor in a challenge of incumbent Mayor A C Wharton.

The council’s passage of first reading of the ordinance to create the special fund for an overhaul of the city bus system was approved the day after the Shelby County Commission took the same action.

The report on sexual-abuse coverups among Southern Baptist congregations includes connection to a local megachurch.

The Tuesday, May 24, council agenda also includes the second of three votes on a companion ballot question that would allow partisan primaries in city elections.

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County property tax rate set, but budgeting goes on

But the Shelby County Commission still has some dollar figures to crunch and some conflicting calculations to resolve before it can close the books on another budget season. 

There were seven votes on the county commission for the first of three readings on creating the first dedicated source of recurring local funding for the city-owned bus system. But there are amendments ahead. 

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County Commission again delays filling state House seat

The delay comes as the commission as well as the city council have had trouble with attendance this month as the school year ends and family vacations begin.

Shelby County Commission will consider a proposal by Edmund Ford Jr. that will match Memphis' dedicated funding for MATA, the public transportation service that provides bus service throughout the city.

“I understand major renovations (at FedExForum) are going to be needed,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said, “but I don’t think it’s scary at all.”

The question arose recently of whether 200 or so homes already occupied and an additional 100 homes planned are in Shelby or Fayette County.

The May county primary results are certified and the Democratic and Republican nominees who advanced to the August ballot are now seeking to appeal to a larger group of voters in that election.