National Civil Rights Museum President Russell Wigginton said on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that he hopes state education officials will consult with the museum as they set the guidelines for school systems to navigate the new state law banning teaching about systemic racism and how the history of race impacts the present.

The summit comes during an off-election year in Shelby County politics, which Rev. Earle Fisher said is useful to emphasize the coalition’s focus on issues and policy.

The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast recaps local political development including the county’s budget season and campaign openings for the 2022 county elections. Also, the partisan divide among area legislators remains in place on voting rights and the infrastructure bill.

Some of the changes proposed and outlined on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast address issues that came up in the allegations made against county commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. in an independent investigation made public last month in The Daily Memphian. 

The city’s director of Housing and Community Development talks on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the citywide strategy to be developed by the fall. Mairi Albertson says the lessons of the pandemic include broadband that can handle several people online at the same time.

The former Tennessee Governor talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the state’s path to Republican dominance and his call on Christian conservatives to pull away from the nation’s partisan political divide.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the leader of the coalition of nonprofits calling for different budget priorities questions the resetting of the city and county property tax rates by state law. Cardell Orrin says the city and county rates should stay where they are and not be viewed as a tax hike for all.

Shelby County commissioner Tami Sawyer says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that this close to county elections there is no political will for a tax hike. She also backs a quick budget passage next month and a second look at the budget in the fall once federal American Rescue Plan funding is in play.

The new edition of The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast runs down recent political events including sorting out what became of the idea of a “Super Chancery Court” proposed in the Tennessee Legislature.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the two-time Democratic nominee for the Tennessee Legislature talks about the new Latino Democratic political action committee Fuerza that she serves on the board of. And Gabby Salinas talks about whether she will challenge Republican state Senator Brian Kelsey in the 2022 elections.