Municipal mayors say more restrictive health department orders could permanently harm businesses
New Shelby County health directive in the works By Kendall Downing | December 18, 2020 at 6:06 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 6:13 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Monday, the Memphis City Councilâs executive session will take up a resolution to support the issuance of a Safer At Home order by the Shelby County Health Department.
A copy of the resolution publicized Friday does not include specific details of what the order would entail. The online meeting is set for Monday at 10 a.m.
Earlier this week, Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said future restrictive efforts would require cooperation of elected bodies amid criticism of health department authority.
State, local leaders praise Mid-Southâs role in vaccine distribution
Local leaders on vaccine By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 14, 2020 at 10:59 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 12:42 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Bill Hagerty of Tennessee called the vaccine deliveries Monday the first day of bringing the pandemic to an end:
âFedEx will handle a huge part of the distribution not only for our state and for America but the world. We have tremendous logistics talent here in Tennessee and FedEx is at the pinnacle of this,â he said.
Hagerty calls the vaccine the âmoonshot of our age.â
Hagerty praises FedEx efforts on vaccine
The 901: How a Tom Lee Park revamp could transform Downtown Memphis Ryan Poe, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Good Thursday morning from Memphis, which is getting some unseasonably warm weather today. This morning, we re looking at Christian Brothers University s expansion plans and at how South Memphis residents could buy back the block. But first.
After a post-mediation redesign, the long-awaited $60 million redevelopment of the Downtown Memphis park overlooking the Mississippi River is finally underway.
Marking the start of what could be a more than two-year redevelopment of Tom Lee Park, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland broke ground on the project yesterday at Cutbank Bluff, our Corinne Kennedy reports. The bluff will be redesigned as a gateway connecting the park with South Main, with a walkway stretching across Riverside Drive and crisscrossing up the bluff to Vance Avenue, near Old Dominick Distillery.