Search for: "Memphis City Council" Results 1 - 20 of 84
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
3 Dec 2020, 11:25 am by John Cetor
Memphis City Council voted against adopting an ordinance requiring those lobbying the council to register with the city and name their clients. [read post]
23 Nov 2006, 11:29 am
From my neck of the woods comes word that the Memphis City Council has passed a living wage ordinance for those business that contract with the city to provide services, with some important exclusions (via The Commercial Appeal):In the 11-1... [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 9:02 pm by Joseph Margulies
The problem is that DOJ has no way to force this understanding on the City of Memphis. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 8:30 am
The City Council, which is made up of seven Black and six white members, voted unanimously to sell the parks where the monuments stood to a nonprofit entity that quickly removed them. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The workers asked Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb and the city council to improve their working conditions, but they refused to do so. [read post]
12 May 2016, 5:49 pm by Patricia Salkin
In this case, the court reviewed Defendant Shelby County Government’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint and Defendants City of Memphis and Memphis City Council’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 9:00 am by Nonprofit Blogger
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that the Pittsburgh City Council and a nonprofit coalition have agreed to a plan to generate $5.2-million to $5.4-million of payments in lieu of taxes over two years. [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 6:01 am
Michalyn Easter-Thomas, a member of the City Council, said she did not hear about the volatile encounters people had with the Scorpion unit until after Mr. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 8:37 am by Walter Olson
John Berlau recalls Memphis, Kansas City and Chicago strikes accompanied by arson, sabotage, and loss of both life and property: If the IAFF [International Association of Fire Fighters] and its allies get their way with federal legislation to mandate collective bargaining for public-safety officers in every American community, the deadly fire-fighter strikes of the recent past will almost certainly be a part of our “progressive” future. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
In September 2020, four months after the murder of George Floyd, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland convened an advisory council that included clergy, civil rights leaders, legislators, public defenders, and police officers, and charged it with “reimagining policing” in the city. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 7:03 pm by Darrin Mish
The link is promoted on this statement on the church’s website that reads, “Please access the Family Action Council of Tennessee website (www.familyactiontn.org) and click on the Memphis City Council Elections for a list of those councilmen who have stood strong for our values on this issue and are being strongly opposed by the TEP Political Action Committee”. [read post]
12 May 2011, 6:19 pm
Frederick Motz, of Federal District Court in Maryland denied Wells Fargo’s attempt to dismiss a similar lawsuit brought by the mayor and city council of Baltimore. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 2:53 am by jonathanturley
” Likewise, officials in Shelby County, Tennessee (where Memphis is located) voted to spend $5 million to study the possibility of a long-term reparations program. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
But I believe Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis when she told the Public Safety Committee of the Memphis City Council that Memphis officers had “exceptional” training. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 5:00 am by Kevin
A couple of weeks ago, I made fun of the city council of Dublin, Georgia, which had passed a bill banning pants that sag more than three inches below the "crest of the ilium," exposing the buttocks or underwear, and justified this in part because of alleged evidence "that wearing sagging pants is injurious to the health of the wearer as it causes an improper gait. [read post]
27 Dec 2019, 1:14 pm by Wendy Lindars
Frazier, La Vergne Charles Higgins, Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC, Memphis Brooke Hyman, Memphis City Council, Memphis Troy Jones, Law Office of Troy B. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 8:27 am by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
 King joined the sanitation workers to protest both their economic deprivation and race discrimination by Memphis city officials. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 6:37 am by Jeff Welty
The Council on Criminal Justice issued this news release about its own analysis of crime data, finding that “[m]ost types of violent crime dropped in major American cities in 2022, but robberies and theft offenses rose as the nation emerged from the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]