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Memphis City Councilmembers passed three tax increases Tuesday to balance the about $858 million fiscal year 2025 budget. The city property tax will increase by 18.2%, but that is lower than Mayor ...
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The senior members established a funeral home, and built a broad network in the black community. Their political prominence dates to the era of E.H. Crump in the early 20th century in Memphis and the state. The best-known member of this family is Harold Ford, Sr., who represented most of Memphis in the U.S. House from 1975 to 1997.
District 31 covers parts of Memphis and its immediate suburbs to the east, including most of Germantown and most of Collierville, and some of unincorporated Shelby County. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The district overlaps with Tennessee's 8th and 9th congressional districts .
Rutherford County Property Assessor Rob Mitchell listens to visitors speak against him during an Ethics Committee Commission meeting held to address alleged concerns against Mitchell on Wednesday ...
Millington is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and is a part of the Memphis metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census , it had a population of 10,176. [ 6 ] Millington was granted the title "Flag City Tennessee" by the Tennessee State Legislature.
Orange Mound stands on the site of the former John Deaderick plantation. Between 1825 and 1830, Deaderick (whose family donated the land in Nashville on which the Tennessee State Capitol was built) purchased 5,000 acres (20 km 2) of land (from Airways to Semmes) and built a stately house there (at what is now the east side of Airways, between Carnes and Spottswood).
The county was named for Governor Isaac Shelby (1750–1826) of Kentucky. It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee with a majority African American population, along with Haywood County. Shelby County is part of the Memphis, TN–MS–AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.