House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally held a ceremonial signing of the bill at City Hall in Memphis.

The Democratic candidates in the race are Memphis City Councilman JB Smiley Jr., Nashville-based critical-care physician Jason Martin and Memphis activist Carnita Atwater. 

Candidates continue to pull petitions to get on the November ballot in Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown and Lakeland municipal elections. 

Despite some confusion over a holiday, candidates for suburban elections began pulling petitions Monday for suburban elections in November.

Flanagan, who is remembered for his signature shorts and flowered Hawaiian shirts, died June 15, ending a career that included involvement in the local Democratic Party’s executive committee as well as an organizer of the Midtown St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl.

The ballot question would be the second amending the city charter in this election year. Also on the budget are Memphis Area Transit Authority funding and the city’s blight problem.

Partisan primaries would make Memphis city government more like the divisive dumpster fire that is today’s Washington, D.C.

While political candidates are required to file financial disclosure documents as part of their campaigns, several have missed deadlines, including in Bartlett.

While he never directly stated his plan for the next presidential election, throughout his speech Saturday and again during his closing remarks, Trump hinted at the possibility of a second run in 2024. 

On “Behind The Headlines,” Memphis City Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon said Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael’s appearance on the show a week earlier looks like a change in Michael’s attitude toward juvenile justice reform but isn’t. 

The former president, the headliner at a conservative political conference on Saturday, offered a preview during a speech in Nashville of what he is likely to say.

The recount requested by two second-place finishers in the May primaries and approved by the state Democratic party’s primary board did not change the certified results.

The Shelby County Election Commission has until Monday to complete the process for primary races that each got fewer than 3,000 votes.

Prices to attend Saturday’s event range from $9 a person to watch a live feed from an overflow room to a $3,995 “presidential” package that was recently changed to a “buy one, get one free” deal.

The Tennessee Democratic Party’s primary board ordered recounts for the Shelby County Commission Districts 7 and 11 races.

Republican U.S. Representative says it’s “a seat at the table on issues such as taxes, trade and healthcare” for constituents in West Tennessee and the Mid-South region.

Let’s not kid ourselves: Council’s effort to extend term limits is not about ensuring a better and more equitable government.

Weirich, a Republican who has been in office since 2011, is running for reelection. She faces Democrat Steve Mulroy in the August county general election.

The series of votes in a marathon County Commission session Monday reflect some budget amendments and changes to various line items. 

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The commission voted to fund a new voting system with both touch-screen machines with a paper trail as well as hand-marked paper ballots. 

“This order strengthens accountability and transparency around existing school safety planning and assures Tennessee parents that our efforts to protect students and teachers will continue,” Lee said in a press release.

Is there any real way to tell whether the whole Fayette-Shelby county line discrepancy is a way to keep Lee Mills from running for District 99?

The vote could settle a nearly 20-year debate between a Democratic-majority Board of County Commissioners, which favors hand-marked paper ballots, and a Republican-majority Shelby County Election Commission, which believes ballot marking devices should be implemented.

The City Council Scorecard follows the maneuvering as the council puts a ballot question on the August ballot that might look familiar to Memphis voters.

Jewel Jordan, a lifelong Collierville resident, is the first candidate to announce for the seat being vacated by Billy Patton.