Mayor Young vetoes council rewrite of impasse ordinance
In a three-page letter, Young writes that the ordinance “seeks to enlarge the Council’s authority in direct contravention of the charter.”
Topic: Dr. Jeff Warren
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May 2026
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April 2026
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Council hangs up over length of leases for city-owned properties
The sticking point is language that encouraged the administration to try to negotiate leases for terms of five years for projects like the Children’s Museum of Memphis and the new Metal Museum.
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City Council goes behind closed doors to talk MPD’s No Kings response
Council member Jerri Green said she wasn’t told why the items were removed from discussion but said an outside investigation of MPD may be needed.
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June 2025
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Opinion: Regional One’s billion-dollar modernization is ‘flawed vision for Memphis’
“The assumption that services like trauma care, obstetrics and burn treatment cannot be relocated or integrated into other campuses is misleading. ... The real barrier isn’t logistics — it’s turf protection.”
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Opinion: Jeff Warren’s new Regional One alternative ‘lacks practical merit’
“The suggestion to bring all local health systems together to operate a single academic medical center is also not a viable option,” the Regional One Health president and CEO writes.
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Instead of county building new Regional One, Jeff Warren has an idea
For the past several months, Memphis City Councilman Jeff Warren has been giving tours of Methodist University Hospital. His goal is simple: Convince the community it doesn’t need to spend $1 billion on a new campus for Regional One.
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February 2025
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Guest Column: Invest wisely — merge Regional One with Methodist University
“One viable option is to merge the proposed Regional One Medical Center with Methodist University Hospital, to form a single, well-resourced University Medical Center.”
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January 2024
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Sara Lewis, fierce advocate for children and education, dies
“She was very disappointed in Memphis about how the so-called Black children were allowed to falter because it allowed different subsets of schools,” said Aaron L. Lewis Jr., Lewis’s son.
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September 2023
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Two City Council Super District 9 incumbents face challengers
Two of the three positions in City Council Super District 9 have incumbents facing one challenger each.
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May 2023
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Opinion: Memphis City Council did not back down on gun reform
“We must continue to let our state representatives know how their gun laws have completely upended our city and that we demand Tennessee’s urban cities be given the authority to impose their own firearm laws. It won’t be a quick or easy road.”
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October 2022
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Conaway: A few things for my birthday
“There are some things I want. I’ve wanted them for a while and the hints just aren’t working. So, I’ve made a modest list — 10 things you can choose from.”
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August 2022
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Las Savell Jewelry building getting new life as police, fire recruiting station
The City of Memphis paid $600,000 for the high-visibility location at 61 S. McLean.
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June 2022
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Opinion: Why we need to extend term limits in Memphis
Voting yes on this ballot question will afford elected officials the opportunity to make their case to voters on why they deserve a third term.
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March 2022
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Three council members call for review of MLGW proposals
Letter questions the validity of the process being used to determine what it would take to get a new electric power supplier and build a new system for MLGW to break its 80-year relationship with TVA.
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January 2022
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City Council delays police residency vote until April
City Council members have delayed the first reading on a police residency referendum until April to see if the Tennessee General Assembly passes a law banning such residency requirements for public safety employees statewide.
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August 2021
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Table Talk: Fig season means fig bread, a nice surprise, a sobering Sound Bites
A pleasant surprise on the scale inspires a renewed interest in cooking at home.
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Rising COVID numbers frightening for restaurateur and doctor
Dr. Jeff Warren believes it’s time for mandatory masking; Deni Reilly worries restaurants are going to bear the brunt of high COVID numbers once again.
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Hospitalizations soar; ICUs could be full by mid-month
Sunday, the situation was dire enough that Regional One Health diverted trauma cases to other emergency rooms.
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July 2021
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Raleigh used car lot controversy takes turn toward kayaks and bike rentals
Car lots and gas stations are getting more scrutiny from the Memphis City Council. But the idea of a proposed used car lot on Old Austin Peay Highway becoming a bike and kayak rental business instead is a new twist.
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May 2021
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Fight against Byhalia Connection continues ahead of key council vote
Many of the speakers reiterated concerns about the pipeline’s potential impact on the city’s aquifer and questioned why the Byhalia Connection had to run through predominantly lower-income Black neighborhoods in Memphis.
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April 2021
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Plains All American mounting fight against revised city ordinance
Plains All American Pipeline is launching a full-on offensive against the proposed legislation with the help of organizations that support the oil and gas industry.
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Existing pipeline makes Byhalia Connection unneeded, environmental groups say
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April 23 Byhalia Connection pipeline hearing delayed
Plans to build a 49-mile pipeline to transport crude oil from southwest Memphis to another pipeline at a connecting point near Byhalia, Mississippi, have run into delays on a couple of different fronts.
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January 2021
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Heads up! Second-dose vaccine notices coming this week
Nearly 1,000 people in Shelby County due second doses could start receiving them in the last week of January.
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State to begin vaccinating elderly next month
The Tennessee Health Department adds elderly to vaccine priority list in 10-year swaths, starting with those 75 and older.
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December 2020
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Shelby County hospital capacity reflects post-holiday surge
Shelby County’s hospital beds are filling up even though the county has one of the lowest new case rates in Tennessee, according to a New York Times database.
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