S5E26: Bill Dries interviews Roderick Richmond
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Release Date: 09/21/2023
S6E12: Democratic Senate nominee Gloria Johnson
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The Democrat challenging Republican U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn on the Nov. 5 ballot talks about the statewide campaign and the historic change in the Democratic presidential ticket on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast.
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S6E11: Lisa Arnold - The race for General Sessions Court Clerk and why it is important
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Tami Sawyer and Lisa Arnold are the candidates in the only countywide race to be decided by Shelby County voters this election year. Arnold is a retired supervisor in the clerk’s office who began working there part-time as a teenager.
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S6E10: Tami Sawyer - The race for General Sessions Court Clerk and why it is important
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Tami Sawyer and Lisa Arnold are the candidates in the only countywide race to be decided by Shelby County voters this election year. Sawyer is best known as a former county commissioner.
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S6E9: Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery on hip-hop museum
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Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery talks in the “On The Record” podcast about more specific plans for a hip hop museum in Memphis.
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S6E8: Mayor Harris talks about the compromises of county budget season
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Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris breaks down how county commissioners settled amid budget season, including keeping vacant positions on the books and local opposition to the Regional One Health rebuild.
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S6E7: Countywide voter registration numbers up as early voting approaches for August election
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Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips talks on the “On The Record” podcast about the upcoming August elections and voter turnout. Meanwhile, the latest election commission count shows 593,121 voters countywide as of May - an increase of approximately 10,000 voters from two years ago.
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S6E6: Explaining the two major features of the Shelby County budget proposal
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Shelby County Budget Director Michael Thompson talks about the 2024 budget season in county government on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast as well as the savings found in vacant county positions.
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S6E5: County budget proposal ups county’s share of Regional One Health campus rebuild
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Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris talked on The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast about his $1.6 billion county budget proposal and the change to more local funding for a rebuilding of the Regional One Health campus.
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S6E4: Lonnie Robinson on Clayborn Temple
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One of the artists working on new stained glass images for Historic Clayborn Temple talks on the “On The Record” podcast about bringing images of the 1968 sanitation workers strike to the frames of the landmark.
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S6E3: County Commissioner Henri Brooks
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County Commissioner Henri Brooks found out two years ago she was adopted through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society - a notorious black market adoption operation. Her lawsuit against the state could open a “floodgate.” Brooks talked about the sudden revelation in The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast series.
info_outlineRoderick Richmond started at Shannon Elementary School as his neighborhood school at a time when busing as well as private schools were changing the definition of neighborhood schools in public and private school systems. For the first grade, he was bused to Wells Station Elementary School, which racially was a school in transition. His time as a student came as longer-term patterns in the reaction to busing were taking root.