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Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips and Ian Randolph of the Shelby County Voter Alliance join the Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast to talk about the August and November elections and the differences voters will see from one to the other.

A look at local Democratic unity calls and challenges to several winners of the May Democratic primaries.

Along with countless other fans on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok, they're building new communities where the league's most knowledgeable, passionate, and funny fans can connect to each other and the team they love.

Republican nominee for Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris talked on The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast about the terrain of the 2022 county general election.

Shelby County commission budget committee chairman Michael Whaley talks about the county budget season on The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast.

The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast reviews the results from Tuesday's county primaries -- Democratic and Republican -- with a look ahead to the August county general election.

Making its way through the Memphis City Council are a pair of ballot questions that could change the face of city government and the nature of city politics -- if they get on the ballot and if a majority of city voters agree at the ballot box.

Making its way through the Memphis City Council are a pair of ballot questions that could change the face of city government and the nature of city politics -- if they get on the ballot and if a majority of city voters agree at the ballot box.

Earle Fisher of UpTheVote 901 talks in The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast about the return of the political gathering begun in 2019 and the state of the city's new activism that has mixed campaigning for causes with campaigning for elected office.

On The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen talks about the biggest chunk of funding so far for MATA's eight-mile "Innovation Corridor" between Downtown and the University of Memphis Campus.

Bill Dries interviews Steve Mulroy.

Bill Dries interviews Janika White.

Bill Dries interviews Linda Harris.

The position is one seen under different titles at animal shelters in other cities. The goal is to reunite pets with owners and reduce the need for space at MAS.

The agreement, which also preserves the Overton Park greensward in its entirely, draws on a lot of the ideas that have been proposed individually during the years-long controversy.

Ken Moody has got the one-on-one challenge of incumbent County Mayor Lee Harris he wanted in the May Democratic primary. In The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast he talks about challenging an incumbent with different priorities.

The county administration is working with a national coalition of local elected leaders to question the efficacy fines and fees in the local criminal justice system. Among the first changes, was dropping a fee for medical services at the county corrections center.

Sculptor David Alan Clark talks via the "On The Record" podcast about how he planned his 2006 monument to Tom Lee to work with the river as a backdrop and how it works with Tom Lee Park plans underway 16 years after the work of art was unveiled.

MLGW moves toward an expected Friday wrap-up of ice storm recovery with a method honed by past storms with longer recovery periods. But utility officials already see room for change and improvement.

The number of people without power dropped to about 30% of MLGW's customers Friday afternoon after a steady rise throughout Thursday. But the numbers could increase as the utility restores powers to pockets and then links them up for larger areas of restoration. Meanwhile, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talked Friday about a longer term approach by the city on warming and cooling centers in such eme...

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, during The Daily Memphian's "On The Record" podcast defends the new district lines for the House that put the two youngest incumbents in the Shelby County delegation in the same district. Sexton also talks about the special legislative session on the pandemic in a wide-ranging interview.

Shelby County Election Commission chairman Brent Taylor says in the "On The Record" podcast that the realignment of some precincts is an adjustment to new Shelby County Commission district lines. And the new identifiers for precincts are a change in a system of identifiers that may date back to the Crump era of Memphis politics.

The podcast debut sets the stage for the interviews that are an integral part of The Daily Memphian's coverage of politics and government.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, City Council member Martavius Jones says he intends to propose doing away with council super districts and also will call for partisan primaries in advance of city general elections. 

The state's executive order banning mask mandates is taking fire from President Joe Biden as well as Biden's education secretary Miguel Cardona, who this past week specifically questioned the legality of the executive order.