‘Relentless advocate for Memphis neighborhoods’ retires from City Hall
Steve Shular (in a file photo, surveying overgrown grass in a neighborhood), recently retired as the city’s special assistant for neighborhood concerns. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Unmowed lawns, broken curbs and blighted properties have been Steve Shular’s daily problem for the better part of four decades.
First as a reporter at Actions News 5 (WMC-TV) in the 1980s and then an off-and-on official at Memphis City Hall for years, many resident complaints came to him. When someone called about a neighborhood concern, it often fell on Shular’s desk, and he would roam the 300-plus square miles of Memphis working to fix it.
Property by property, curb by curb and street by street, Shular worked to make Memphis a little cleaner and a little safer. He retired from the City of Memphis Friday, July 19, where he served as special assistant to the mayor for neighborhood concerns, working for Mayor Paul Young and former Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. He first joined the City in 1985, working for then-Mayor Dick Hackett.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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