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A Memphis City Council meeting can be seen through the City of Memphis seal in the meeting room door at city hall in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
The new River City Momentum Fund aims to help streamline financing options for developments in Memphis and get more projects across the finish line. Memphis developments could get boost from new ...
Memphis could move closer to the planned renovations on Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium Tuesday, but a City Council resolution could stand in the way.
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.
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville.
The Memphis Flyer, December 4, 1997. Rushing, Wanda. Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South. Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Rushing, Wanda. Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology. Southern Spaces, August 28, 2009.
Memphis is now the second city in America to receive additional federal law enforcement assets to combat violent crime, and gang-related crime, through a program that was piloted, and saw success ...
The first city council took office in 1968, after the modern city charter had been approved by Memphis voters in a 1966 referendum. The 1966 charter set the salary for council members at $6,000, which was later raised to $20,100 in 1995, and later raised again to the current amount of $30,100.