Shelby County commissioners mustered the eight votes needed Monday, June 18, to override a veto by county mayor Mark Luttrell with one to spare.

2. County Commission Leaves Only Tax Rate Undone in Budget Season - Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Shelby County commissioners took final action Monday, June 18, on every item in its budget season except a final approval of a $4.05 county property tax rate.

The approval of a $1.3 billion county consolidated operating budget and a $90.2 million capital

3. Luttrell, Jones: County Budget Talks Center on Property Tax Allocation - Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Shelby County government’s budget season turns on the county’s property tax rate. It’s not about decreasing the current $4.11 rate to $4.05, as proposed by Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell. It’s about how the $4.05 rate would be allocated among various county uses.

4. Harris, Lenoir to Battle for County Mayor - Thursday, May 3, 2018

Republican David Lenoir and Democrat Lee Harris will meet in the Aug. 2 county general election to decide who will be the next Shelby County mayor. Lenoir and Harris won their respective primaries easily Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

5. Lenoir and Harris Advance in County Mayor's Race - Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Republican David Lenoir and Democrat Lee Harris will meet in the Aug. 2 county general election to decide who will be the next Shelby County Mayor. Lenoir and Harris won their respective primaries easily Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

6. County Primary Ballot Includes Partisan Match-Ups, Automatic Wins - Monday, February 19, 2018

Two Democratic county commissioners effectively won re-election to new terms of office at the Thursday, Feb. 15, filing deadline for candidates on the May 1 county primary ballot. And a third faces independent opposition in the August county general election.

7. Two County Commissioners Re-elected At May Ballot Filing Deadline - Friday, February 16, 2018

Two Democratic county commissioners effectively won re-election to new terms of office at the Thursday, Feb. 15, filing deadline for candidates on the May 1 county primary ballot. And a third faces independent opposition in the August county general election.

8. County Primary Filing Opens With Paperwork Flurry - Monday, November 20, 2017

A total of 37 prospective candidates in the May 2018 county primaries pulled qualifying petitions last week on the first day of the filing period Friday, Nov. 17.

And the first contenders through the doors at the Shelby County Election Commission in a period that extends to a February deadline confirms a few trends.

9. Justice Department Drops Some But Not All Juvenile Court Oversight - Saturday, October 28, 2017

The U.S. Justice Department has dropped more but not all of the measures it put in place five years ago at Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court.

The reforms and monitoring in the 2012 settlement agreement between the Justice Department and the court, Shelby County government and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office covered a wide range of areas in a scathing review of court practices, particularly in due process issues and a racial disparity in how the court treats African-American children in the court for the same offenses or problems as white children.

10. Juvenile Court Outcomes Still Questioned - Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Rev. Keith Norman says just about every time federal monitors in the settlement agreement with Juvenile Court come to Memphis they meet with him and want to hear from a broad cross section of Memphians with no filtering of those they encounter.

11. Juvenile Court Judge Calls Federal Oversight and Monitors a ‘Distraction’ - Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Five years ago when the U.S. Justice Department concluded years of review with a scathing report about due process and equal treatment issues in Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court, then Judge Curtis Person Jr. and his staff had to make a decision.

12. Last Word: Football In The Rain, Shakespeare in Cordova and The Grizz Roster - Friday, September 1, 2017

There are moments in the history of sports amateur and professional that involve turn outs like the one Thursday at the Liberty Bowl for the Tigers football season opener. There were the people who ran the St. Jude marathon in the ice several years back even after the race was cancelled. Going back to the 1980s, there were those who came out in below freezing temps for Alabama Coach Bear Bryant’s last game that came at the annual Liberty Bowl.

13. Commission Votes Down Health Coverage Change - Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Shelby County Commissioners voted down a switch Monday, Aug, 28, of the county’s health insurance administration contract from Cigna to an $11 million, two-year contract with two one-year renewal options with Aetna.

14. County Commission Votes Down Health Coverage Change - Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Shelby County Commissioners voted down a switch Monday, Aug, 28, of the county’s health insurance administration contract from Cigna to Aetna in an $11 million two-year contract with two renewals of one year each.

15. Biz Leaders Quit Trump Panel After Charlottesville Comments - Wednesday, August 16, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) – A fourth business leader resigned Tuesday from President Donald Trump's White House jobs panel – the latest sign that corporate America's romance with Trump is faltering after his initial half-hearted response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

16. Arrests Mark Turbulent Season for Democrats - Monday, June 16, 2014

At week’s end, Shelby County Commissioner Henri Brooks and Shelby County Democratic Party Chairman Bryan Carson had been arrested within 24 hours of each other on separate charges.

17. Brown’s Complex Contempt Case Moves Forward - Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Former Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown’s actions in Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court in March will live on in court past the May county primaries and into the campaign season as Brown prepares to challenge incumbent District Attorney General Amy Weirich in the August general election.

18. Brown Contempt Hearing Scheduled for Friday - Saturday, May 3, 2014

Former Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown’s March contempt citation in Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court is set to be heard by a special Criminal Court judge Friday, May 2.

19. Brown Contempt Case Goes to Appeals Court - Monday, May 5, 2014

Special Criminal Court Judge Paul Summers has sent the Juvenile Court contempt citation against former Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Jackson, Tenn.

20. Brown Contempt Case Goes to Appeals Court - Friday, May 2, 2014

Special Criminal Court Judge Paul Summers on Friday, May 2, sent the Juvenile Court contempt citation against former Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Jackson, Tenn.

21. Brown Contempt Hearing Scheduled for Friday - Friday, May 2, 2014

Former Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown’s March contempt citation in Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court is set to be heard by a special Criminal Court judge Friday, May 2.

22. Surprise From Fed: No Pullback in Bond Purchases - Thursday, September 19, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) – In a surprise, the Federal Reserve has decided against reducing its stimulus for the U.S. economy because its outlook for growth has dimmed in the past three months.

The Fed said it will continue to buy $85 billion a month in bonds while it awaits conclusive evidence that the economy is strengthening. The Fed's bond purchases are intended to keep long-term borrowing rates low to boost spending and economic growth.

23. Roaming Other Rivieras - Thursday, July 11, 2013

MARSEILLE, France – I never expected those other Rivieras to look anything like those here in the States. (See last week’s column or risk being lost while reading this one. Hint: I’m on vacation.)

24. McLaughlin Joins Inferno as Senior Copywriter - Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Trish McLaughlin has joined inferno as senior copywriter. In her new role, McLaughlin supervises the copywriting department, pairing up writers with art directors and project teams, and reviewing copy for message, voice and strategic focus. In addition, she coaches young writers in strategic thinking, concepting, editing and presenting.

25. Wealth of Experience - Thursday, November 3, 2011

Paul Tudor Jones loves the feel of newsprint in his hands.

Get a newspaper business veteran talking – especially one from the pre-digital business, when the typing on newsroom keyboards sounded more like a clacking – and they can still hear the sounds, smell the ink and see the bustle. And they’ll tell you so.

26. Obama: Talks on Entitlements 'Have Already Begun' - Friday, February 18, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that difficult debates on how to address the costs of Social Security and Medicare are "starting now," even though his 2012 budget blueprint lacked any major changes to the large benefit programs.

27. Schools Controversy Spotlight Moves From Election Prep - Friday, January 7, 2011

This may be where the dispute between Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools goes to court and drags in more political entities.

The dimmed prospect of a February referendum of Memphis voters on an MCS charter surrender has turned the spotlight from the preparations for an election to a race across the new year’s calendar between an election and special school district legislation in the Tennessee Legislature.

28. No Election Date Yet For MCS Charter Surrender - Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Shelby County Election Commission met Wednesday and adjourned minutes later without putting the Memphis City Schools (MCS) charter surrender on a special election ballot.

The five-member body refused based on a legal opinion from Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins delivered an hour before the meeting. The opinion says the Memphis City Council must approve having the referendum before the item can go on the ballot.

29. Tennessee Native Earl Keister Joins Thompson & Co. - Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Earl Keister has joined Thompson & Co. as creative director.

Hometown: Knoxville

Education: University of Tennessee, Portfolio Center

Work Experience: Fifteen years in the advertising field. I’m like Johnny Cash: I’ve been everywhere.

30. School Funding Question Still Alive - Thursday, September 16, 2010

The city of Memphis and Memphis City Schools are on the path to a politically difficult plan in which the city will pay the school system $57 million it owes from a past budget year.

The talks have almost certainly been complicated this week by the Memphis City Council’s approval of the school system’s budget for the next fiscal and school year with some important strings attached.

31. Council Approval of MCS Budget Comes With Strings - Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Memphis City Council approved the Memphis City Schools (MCS) system’s $891.7 million operating budget Tuesday for the 2010-2011 fiscal and school year.

But the council left open exactly how much of that budget the city will provide and asserted it has control over which revenue sources the school system can use to fund the budget.

32. Service Sector Activity, Retail Sales Disappoint - Friday, December 4, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) – Further evidence that the economic recovery will be a slow and bumpy one emerged Thursday with reports service sector activity and retail sales unexpectedly shrank in November as consumers held back on purchases.

33. Fed's Steps to Aid Banking System Raise Risks, Too - Tuesday, September 15, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve's bold steps to prevent the banking industry from collapsing last year have injected new dangers into the financial system.

Analysts and government officials fear that the nation's biggest banks will be emboldened to resume excessive risk-taking on the belief that the Fed will be there – again – to prevent them from collapsing.

34. Attorney General Wades Into MCS Funding Dispute - Monday, August 17, 2009

“The outcome of this case could potentially affect every public school in the state of Tennessee.”

The office of Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper used those words in a recent Tennessee Court of Appeals filing to lay out the stakes involved in the funding flap between the city of Memphis and Memphis City Schools. In that filing, Cooper’s office also asks the appeals court for permission to formally weigh in on the long-running legal dispute.

35. Obama Adds Econ Advisers, Says 'Help on the Way' - Friday, November 28, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to have an economic plan ready for action on the nation's financial crisis on his first day in office. "Help is on the way," he declared.

36. Wall Street Turns to Consumers To Gauge Economy - Tuesday, November 11, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street heads into another turbulent week with investors set to pore over a government report on retail sales and earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to get a better reading on consumers.

37. Former State Atty. General To Speak Thursday - Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers will be the featured guest and keynote speaker at the local Student Bar Association’s Inaugural SBA Speaker Series.

The event will be held Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Memphis Cotton Exchange, 65 Union Ave.

38. Legal Fallout Looms After MCS Funds Cut - Thursday, June 5, 2008

The two finalists for the job of superintendent of Memphis City Schools will face the public tonight at a two-hour forum in the Board of Education Auditorium at 2597 Avery Ave.

Those finalists, Dr. Kriner Cash and Dr. Nicholas Gledich, will take questions from the public during a session that comes two days after a new item was unofficially added to the superintendent’s job description.

39. Council Faces School Funding Dilemma - Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Complex legal scenarios and some risky political calculations will be major factors today in swaying the Memphis City Council’s decision on whether to yank $93 million in funding to Memphis City Schools.

40. Dixon Gallery and Gardens Appoints Sharp as Director - Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Board of Trustees has appointed Kevin Sharp as the museum's new director. Sharp received a bachelor's degree in art history from Central Missouri State University and completed graduate studies at the University of Illinois in art history and architecture. He previously served as the research curator for The Art Institute of Chicago and as the curator of American art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla.

41. Barrow Named Chef de Cuisine At Capriccio Grill - Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The Peabody Hotel has named Brian Barrow chef de cuisine for Capriccio Grill, an Italian steakhouse. Barrow began his culinary career at 27. He attended Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts in Miami. He previously was a chef at the Ambassador Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and with Do & Co International Catering.

42. Cooper Installed asState Attorney General - Monday, November 6, 2006
     Robert E. Cooper Jr. has been installed as Tennessee attorney general. He succeeds Paul Summers, who did not seek reappointment.
     Cooper, the 26th Tennessee attorney general, served almos

43. Wassmer Captures Account Exec Spot at Thompson & Berry - Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Katie Wassmer has been promoted to account executive at Thompson & Berry Public Relations, a division of Thompson & Co. Wassmer has been with Thompson & Berry for two years. She joined the company as an intern. Wassmer graduated from the University of Memphis in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in journalism/public relations.

44. Open-Government Proponents Intensify Efforts Statewide - Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Memphians could learn a lot about the way government works from an ordinary Joe.

He's Joe Saino, a former Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division commissioner-turned-tenacious public watchdog who won't take no for an answer. Like last year, for example, when he was stonewalled by municipal officials after requesting public records from the City of Memphis. A string of letters he wrote went unanswered, so he filed suit in Shelby County Chancery Court.

45. Mathews Named to New Post at FedEx Institute - Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Eric Mathews was named associate director of corporate research and development at the University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology. Mathews previously served FIT in temporary roles directing research and business development and was part of the institute's founding executive management. He earned a bachelor's degree from Rhodes College and a master's degree from the University of Memphis.

46. Archived Article: Daily Digest - Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Lottery picks

First Horizon

completes buyout

First Horizon Merchant Services, a member of the First Tennessee National Corp. family of companies, has completed the purchase of the existing stock of Global Card Services Inc. Financial terms ...

47. Archived Article: Calendar - Monday, January 13, 2003
Calendar of events Jan. 13-19

Calendar of events Jan. 13-Jan. 19

Jan. 13

The International Association for Administrative Professionals Memphis chapter has its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn-East, 5795 Poplar Ave. For informat...

48. Archived Article: Law Focus - Thursday, April 26, 2001
Nailing the criminal with a thumbprint Legislators tackle pawnshop thumbprint issue By MARY DANDO The Daily News Opposing camps have taken the issue of thumbprinting at pawnshops before the Tennessee General Assembly. At issue whether taking a thumb...

49. Archived Article: Law Focus - Thursday, December 28, 2000
Memphis Senator Pushes for Tennessee Election Reform Memphis senator pushes for Tennessee election reform By MARY DANDO The Daily News Following the recent voting fiasco in Florida, state Sen. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) plans to introduce what he refer...

50. Archived Article: Page 2 - Thursday, November 18, 1999
MBA finalizes officer, director slate for 2000 MBA finalizes officer, director slate for 2000 The slate of candidates for the Memphis Bar Associations election of officers and directors for 2000 has been finalized, the MBA announced last week. David...

51. Archived Article: Law Focus1 - Thursday, October 28, 1999
Memphis Bar Association announced nominees Memphis Bar Association announced nominees The Memphis Bar Association has released the report of its nominations and elections committee, which was chaired by Prince Chambliss. The association president fo...

52. Archived Article: Law Briefs - Thursday, February 19, 1998
The Memphis Bar Association will present an ethics seminar titled Atticus Finch: Role Model for Professionalism on Friday from 1:30 p The Memphis Bar Association will present an ethics seminar titled "Atticus Finch: Role Model for Professionali...

53. Archived Article: Law Briefs - Thursday, February 12, 1998
The Memphis Bar Association will present an ethics seminar titled Atticus Finch: Role Model for Professionalism on Feb The Memphis Bar Association will present an ethics seminar titled "Atticus Finch: Role Model for Professionalism" on Feb...

54. Archived Article: Law Briefs - Thursday, December 11, 1997
The Memphis Bar Association will present a seminar on appellate practice on Friday from 9 a The Memphis Bar Association will present a seminar on appellate practice on Friday from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at One Commerce Square. The speakers will includ...