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Summer Ave in Binghampton (2010) Binghampton (also spelled "Binghamton") is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician, and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893.
64th Mayor of Memphis; In office January 1, 2016 – January 1, 2024 ... saving 1,200 jobs and $100 million in payroll. ... The city of Memphis began to collect data ...
The Memphis Police Department was founded in 1827. [6] In 1878, the 55-man police department was devastated by the yellow fever epidemic with all 55 officers stricken, and 10 officers dying. [6] By 1927, the city's murder rate was 69.3 per 100,000 population, the highest in the country.
In October 2022, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 12-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) for the $46.44 million project.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy speaks to the press during a press conference at the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.
The City of Memphis lost more than $770,000 in an apparent phishing scam in 2022, the city confirmed to The Commercial Appeal. In February 2022, the city was making regular payments to Zellner ...
The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.
On June 17, 2014, the Memphis City Council passed Wharton's budget "that includes Mayor A C Wharton's plan to cut retiree and current employee health benefits". [25] Under Wharton's budget, all current city employees and retirees (under the age of 65) (including Police and Fire) would have to pay 24% in increased health insurance premiums.