Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips joins us today to set up the week. In addition to some of our normal governmental activities, early voting ends but Baron Von Opperbean's River of Time, the Riverbeat Music Festival and Memphis Water Gardens all begin.

Plus:

• Memphis' budget shows the rising cost of doing business
• Tennessee's cannabis industry is in the weeds
• State leaders give Memphis suburbs votes on the MLGW board
• FedEx lays off more than 100 in New York and Pennsylvania
• Mount Trashmore in Collierville was purchased in a tax sale
• The MSCS board approves teacher raises for the next school year
• A local investor buys a Midtown office tower for $5.5M