Katherine Burgess
Government Accountability Reporter at MLK50
Journalist, loves words and people // Reporter for @MLK50Memphis, previously @memphisnews, @kansasdotcom and @jsunnews
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1 week ago |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
The Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to hold half of the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s $30 million funding for the upcoming fiscal year in a special fund that is restricted for public transportation. That money is to be released to MATA “upon presentation of (a) full financial audit alongside budget and operational plans for remaining funds.” Subscribe to MLK50’s newsletter and get Memphis-rooted news and insights right-sized for your neighborhood.
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3 weeks ago |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A proposal by members of the Memphis City Council to slash the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s city funding in half in its upcoming budget would mean “pretty much ending public transit in Memphis,” John Lewis, interim CEO of MATA, told MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in an interview on Thursday. “The implications would be dire,” Lewis said.
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1 month ago |
commercialappeal.com | Katherine Burgess
Memphis Area Transit Authority advocates and riders want the city to increase the agency’s funding to $50 million for the coming fiscal year. With more money, MATA could run buses more frequently and even add more routes, they say. Instead, MATA is slated to receive about $5 million less from the city of Memphis than it received this year, making it unable to complete a previously-approved plan to replace routes secretly cut by prior leadership.
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2 months ago |
capitalbnews.org | Katherine Burgess
This story was originally published by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Subscribe to their newsletter here. Easter Knox’s brick home in Boxtown has a garden, space for her dog to run and a bench under a sprawling acorn tree planted by her husband. Years ago, he built a large gazebo in the yard adjacent to theirs — a perfect place to listen to the birds.
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2 months ago |
commercialappeal.com | Katherine Burgess
Memphis Area Transit Authority riders have long said that buses don’t come on time and sometimes don’t show up at all. Their complaints were validated last month, when MATA’s interim leadership revealed that the previous leadership had made secret route cuts starting in April 2024 without board approval. The cut trips, which impacted most routes, stayed on the schedule for months, deliberately misleading the public.
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