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Oak Ridge City Council ranks future projects | #citycouncil

Replacing or renovating the pool, increasing the amount of money spent on street improvements, building a new animal shelter: Oak Ridge City Council members recently ranked their priorities among large projects facing the city as the local government staff prepares the budget proposal for the upcoming year and looks to budget years ahead. Although City […]

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Memphis Mayor Paul Young on violent crime reduction, tax hike

During Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s “100 First Days and Beyond” speech Tuesday evening, he vowed to make a 10% reduction in the violent crime rate each year and said he would be asking for a property tax increase. “Our current budget gets us where we are, and we are just getting by, but I think […]

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Knoxville food robot ban advances with unanimous city council vote | #citycouncil

Since the University of Tennessee at Knoxville launched a fleet of food delivery robots in 2022, locals have called them everything from cute and convenient to annoying and weird, but the city is likely to give the little automatons a new label: banned. The Knoxville City Council voted unanimously and speedily in favor of prohibiting […]

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Clarksville mayor recognizes water department employee with STARS Award

April Pedigo, assistant customer service manager in the Murfreesboro Water Resources Department, received the STARS Award April 4, during a special ceremony with Mayor Shane McFarland. The city first hired Pedigo as a cashier for the Water Resources Department in February 2011. She was promoted to customer service clerk in 2012, accounting clerk in 2016, […]

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Memphis Mayor Paul Young says more meetings with gang members will come

Memphis Mayor Paul Young said he sat down with some leaders of Memphis’ gangs a little over two weeks ago. It was not the first time a city mayor had a meeting like that, but it was, seemingly, the first time a sitting mayor discussed it publicly. Along the campaign trail, after the election and […]

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Mayor O’Connell talks transportation vote issues

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell on Thursday announced what could be the most consequential undertaking of this mayoral term: an expedited endeavor to put a vote on dedicated transit funding on Nashville voters’ November ballots. If all goes to plan, voters will have a chance to approve or reject local tax increases that would pay for […]

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Nashville’s mayor, a DJ and now a poker champ

O’Connell beats state Sen. Heidi Campbell, among others, in the tournament. Mayor designates $5,200 in donations for the Nashville State Community College. Ya might have caught him DJing a 10-minute hip-hop set on New Year’s Eve. You definitely saw him beat out 14 challengers for mayor last year. Now, it seems like Freddie O’Connell can […]

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Knoxville City Council to vote on proposal to build nontraditional homes | #citycouncil

The Knoxville City Council will vote Jan. 23 on the missing middle housing plan that could bring more housing to a city facing a housing crunch. Amid rising prices, not enough affordable housing, a growing population and challenging interest rates, these proposed changes would make it easier to build nontraditional homes that take up less […]

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Mayor Paul Young to enforce Tyre Nichols ordinances

Memphis Mayor Paul Young said Thursday he plans to enforce a slate of ordinances that were passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death by the Memphis City Council. The ordinances, which include one that says the Memphis Police Department cannot make traffic stops for certain low-level violations and another that says police cannot initiate […]

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Outgoing Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland on crime, Tyre Nichols, economy

Outgoing Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s tenure was marked by some of Memphis’ highest recent moments. The early years were marked by the removal of statues of Confederate generals from city parks, and Strickland’s administration would later be part of erecting monuments to Black leaders. “One question I got tired of answering was, ‘Why in the […]