For many in Tennessee House District 86, voting for Barbara Cooper long has been equated with choosing to be served by a state representative who demonstrated an unswerving devotion to duty.
Cooper died Oct. 25 at age 93. Her name...
Candidates for Memphis mayor and City Council do not have to be Memphis residents when they run for office but must be residents when they take office, according to a legal opinion.
Unless successfully challenged in Chancery Court, the opinion...
Jana Swearengen-Washington emerged from Tuesday’s special election as a relatively easy winner as a lion's share of District 4 voters decided to send her to City Hall to represent them on the Memphis City Council.
The 30-year educator is the...
From the outset, the Shelby County Young Democrats’ “Meet & Greet” with the party’s Memphis mayoral hopefuls did not go as planned.
Two of the four mayoral hopefuls announced as invited and confirmed – Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr....
Democrats celebrated a spectacular night Thursday (Aug. 4) as a repeat performance of 2018’s blue wave rolled over the Shelby County general election.
Democrats swept the county’s elected offices for mayor, sheriff, district attorney general, court clerks, Shelby County clerk,...
In one of Shelby County’s most contentious races, University of Memphis law professor and criminal law attorney Steve Mulroy declared victory over Republican incumbent Amy Weirich in the race for Shelby County District Attorney General on Thursday.
With all 142...
Voters Thursday (Aug. 4) gave Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris another four-year term to build on his vision.
The incumbent mayor defeated Memphis City Councilmember Worth Morgan in Thursday’s county general election.
Shelby County Election Commission totals as of 1:05 a.m....
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Save the date: MSCS Family Festival
The Memphis Shelby County Schools (MSCS) Family Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 6) at the Board of Education at 160...
Voter advocate groups in Shelby County are celebrating the highest voter turnout in the state.
“Shelby County really turned up the vote during early voting,” said the Rev. Dr. Earle J. Fisher Jr., Upthevote901 organizer. “Although we are a nonpartisan...
Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael is facing three challengers in his bid for re-election, including Tarik B. Sugarmon, who Michael defeated by garnering 54 percent of the vote to Sugarmon’s 46 percent in 2014.
Besides Sugarmon, who is a City...