The AM/DM podcast: How historic tax credits could help Downtown
There are several large, vacant buildings in Downtown Memphis — The Sterick, 100 N. Main and the Falls Building — that are in various stages of redevelopment.
Mary Cashiola
News Editor
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
She was also the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
There are 874 articles by Mary Cashiola :
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: All about the suburban mayoral and aldermen races
Voters in Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland and Millington will soon be going to the polls to decide local races for aldermen, commissioners and mayors.
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2026 elections
The AM/DMThe AM/DM podcast: Early voting in the midterms begins
In Shelby County, early voting for the midterm elections begins today, Oct. 14, and it comes with new districts, new candidates and a few questions about the state constitution.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Downtown, MSCS lawsuit funding and early voting
This week is for early voting, the State of Downtown, The Daily Memphian’s “Developing Memphis” seminar, Halloween and the end of Daylight Saving Time.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: The rise of outpatient surgeries
There are more than 6,500 ambulatory surgery centers operating in the United States.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: There’s a world of fun to celebrate this weekend
This weekend is one to learn about people, places and traditions from outside the U.S.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: What really happened during the City Council’s data center vote
Earlier this week, after several contentious meetings, the Memphis City Council approved a move toward developing land-use standards and regulations for new data centers — though not new regulations themselves.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: The unsolved murder of Stax’s most famous drummer
More than 50 years ago, Stax drummer Al Jackson was killed in his Central Avenue home.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Data centers and Grizzlies start
This week sees the Memphis City Council return for two three-hour sessions on what a possible data center moratorium could look like.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Memphis Sounds, songs and artists
If you love Memphis artists or artisans, this is the weekend for you.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Getting into the Spirit Halloween
Today, commercial real estate reporter Andy Ashby is here to talk about how Spirit Halloween is able to jump-scare consumers each year with new pop-up locations.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Inside the immigration mega master docket
In May, U.S. immigration courts started scheduling what are being called mega master hearings, a full docket of preliminary hearings to handle mostly procedural matters.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Fall break and Memphis Madness
This year, the Tigers will also be hanging out with the tigers as Memphis Madness heads to the Memphis Zoo.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Addressing America’s housing crisis, 1 lot at a time
Leon Place, located in North Memphis, has the feel of both past prosperity and being a current work-in-progress.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Is this as close to Willy Wonka as Memphis gets?
Every piece of the world’s Ice Breakers gum comes from a factory in Memphis.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Grizzlies preseason starts, a food conference comes to town
This week sees the beginning of the newest era of the Memphis Grizzlies, as the team prepares to take on the Atlanta Hawks.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Jazz, opera, EDM and Widespread Panic
This weekend ups the ante on music — all kinds — in a music town.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Helping the environment in your own backyard
As the cutting gardens manager at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Adam Queen’s day job is rooting plants and growing flowers.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: A new neighborhood festival plus the fair
This weekend brings us a haunted carwash, the Mid-South Fair and a new street fair in the Evergreen Historic District.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: A year of the Memphis Safe Task Force
As of Sept. 29, the Memphis Safe Task Force has been on the ground in the city for a year.
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September 2026
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: With football ongoing and basketball season getting underway, we’re talking Tigers
Today, we talk about former players rejoining as coaches, the basketball team’s predilection for 3-pointers and what it will take to get season ticket-holders back into seats.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Departure leaves Collierville looking for a new town administrator
Today, we discuss the ongoing impact of a conflict that started between the town administrator and the fire chief, both of whom no longer work for Collierville.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Media day and Port Night
This week brings us some specially designated days, starting with Memphis Grizzlies media day on Monday and continuing through Tom Lee Day on Saturday.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Fall festival season begins
This weekend brings us both Gonerfest and the Pink Palace Crafts Fair and, as different as those two events are, they both hold a special place in Memphis’ annual event calendar.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Demolition is underway at proposed Regional One site but who’s paying for it?
The site is slated to become the home of a new Regional One hospital, which could cost more than $900 million.
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