Historians Dr. Charles McKinney and Dr. Aram Goudsouzian talk about the history of the black struggle in Memphis.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks about whether Electrolux was a good deal with City Hall given the incentives the city, county and state governments put up several years ago to land the plant that is leaving in just under two years.

The organizers of a new People’s Convention set for April talk publicly about the event in advance of the October city elections for the first time.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris discusses juvenile justice reform with Omer Yusuf and Bill Dries gives a primer on the first election day of 2019.

Shelby County commissioners Tami Sawyer and Mark Billingsley talk about juvenile justice reform with county beat reporter Omer Yusuf, and city government reporter Bill Dries recaps the three new Memphis City Council members and the rocky transition in the Criminal Court clerk’s office.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander talks to The Daily Memphian about his plan to end the government shutdown and get a compromise on President Donald Trump’s border wall and other topics.

Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips discusses new voting machines and paper audit trails and Omer Yusuf talks about the county’s stand on the state’s immigration law and minority business growth.

Looking back at 2018, Lee Harris’s busy 2019 starts to come into sight and Lamar Alexander’s Six Months Off.

Memphis City Council members Patrice Robinson and Worth Morgan talk about the three council vacancies and the way forward. Also on the podcast, discussion about who might run for Lamar Alexander’s Senate seat, sports gambling in Tennessee and long hours at the county building for the County Commission.

A look at Overton Park’s controversial history, Union Row’s trip to the county building and the three empty council seats.