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For the first time in a decade, the Shelby County Health Department is taking a comprehensive look at community health needs. The process, expected...
DRESDEN, Tenn. — Like so many other people in West Tennessee that Friday evening, Cathy Gallimore was watching the weather. Gallimore kept glancing at...
DRESDEN, Tenn. — When he was elected eight years ago at age 30, Weakley County Mayor Jake Bynum was the youngest county mayor in...
Hope in Memphis is a recurring series about people who are working every day in Memphis to defy and defeat crime and violence, poverty and...
Tennessee’s toughened third-grade retention law, passed in early 2021, goes into effect this month. Third graders in public schools who “flunk” next spring’s TNReady reading...
Last August and September, Memphis-Shelby County Schools hosted five pre-bid meetings to outline a whopping 84 federally funded HVAC upgrades at various schools. Representatives...
The agenda for last November’s work session of the Shelby County Board of Education was jammed. There were nearly 90 business items to go...
The proposed new funding formula for public schools will lead to a “fiscal cliff” looming on the horizon for local schools. Or it won’t....
What do you get when you ask 99 legislators to add $1 billion to a new school funding formula, and divide it among 95...
A 14-year-old boy was playing basketball in a park near his home last year when a bullet fired from a passing car tore through...