Amos Maki

• City of Memphis financial plan being crafted Updated 02/04/2013 at 8:40 p.m.

  Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, whose administration will update City Council members Tuesday on a long-term financial blueprint, said "nothing was sacred" as a planning team reviewed potential cuts and revenue sources in the city's budget.

• Memphis could add civil rights activist's name to park named after Confederate leader Updated 02/04/2013 at 6:52 p.m.

  Councilman Myron Lowery is proposing adding the name of Ida B. Wells, a journalist and anti-lynching crusader, to Forrest Park.

• Two teens shot at community center, just before Memphis mayor launches campaign against youth gun violence Published 01/25/2013 at 8:28 p.m.

  Before Memphis mayor introduces plan to reduce youth gun violence, two teenagers shot at community center

• Memphis mayor renews call for sales-tax increase in his state-of-the-city address Updated 01/26/2013 at 12:10 a.m.

  Memphis Mayor A C Wharton used his state-of-the-city address Friday to renew his call for a half-cent sales-tax increase.

• Settlement gives Memphis control of Beale Street Published 01/23/2013 at 6:32 p.m.

  A federal bankruptcy judge approved a settlement Wednesday which effectively gives the city of Memphis control of the Beale Street Entertainment District.

• Memphis City Council approves plan for area around Pyramid arena Updated 01/22/2013 at 11:49 p.m.

  The City Council approved Tuesday a planned development for The Pyramid and the area around it.

• Memphis City Council member leaves meeting in tears after defense of historic KKK leader Updated 01/22/2013 at 6:48 p.m.

  The emotionally charged issue of renaming Forrest Park landed at City Council Tuesday, leading one council member to leave in tears.

• Memphis City Council committee sends sales-tax increase resolution to full body Updated 01/23/2013 at 12:09 a.m.

  Under a plan introduced in City Council committee Tuesday, a free prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds in Memphis would be funded by a sales-tax increase.

• Memphis dispute over name of park moves to City Council Updated 01/21/2013 at 11:27 p.m.

  Memphis City Council member Myron Lowery plans to introduce an ordinance Tuesday to honor the civil rights heroine Ida B. Wells at Forrest Park, which now commemorates a Confederate Civil War officer and onetime grand wizard of the Ku Klux ...

• Memphis opens 311 complaint center at City Hall Published 01/18/2013 at 7:16 p.m.

  Memphis launches 311 center

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