Category: Memphis

  • Gibbons Returns Triumphant

    Bill Gibbons, the former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and a former Shelby County District Attorney General has returned to Memphis to take on crime once again. Gibbons will join the Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis to lend his experience as a DA to the study of…

  • Cameras are only part of the solution

    16 shots. Chicago police released the video this week, after a year of legal wrangling, of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Over a year since the incident, the officer is facing first degree murder charges. According to police accounts, McDonald was a suspect in some auto burglaries in the area. The police also say…

  • Profiles in Cowardice

    Backing off his support of the CLERB isn’t the first time the Mayor lost his backbone at the last second Monday, the Memphis City Council met with key stakeholders to finalize a draft ordinance that would give additional oversight of the Memphis Police Department. The Citizen Law Enforcement Review Board, an entity that has existed…

  • Muzzled In Memphis

    I really hope this works out for both Wendi and the CA, but I’m afraid it won’t for either. About a week after the Brooks flap, there were some folks who expressed to me they were worried she was being silenced. I don’t work for the CA so I have no knowledge one way or…

  • On the proposed Peabody Place Convention Center

    Monday, Mayor Wharton opened the possibility that Peabody Place might be a good opportunity for increasing Memphis’ convention space on the cheap, without throwing more good money after bad (like we did in 2002) at the Cook Convention Center. Peabody Place has been vacant for the better part of four years, though it didn’t officially…

  • Thinking about convention centers

    Twice now, in the past two weeks, Memphis City Councilman Harold Collins has publicly voiced his support for at least thinking about a new convention center here and yesterday, here. Earlier this month, Kevin Kane of the Memphis CVB told the City Council that the Cook was functionally obsolete, something I could have told you…