News
Group Seeks 100 Ways to Boost Degree Attainment
Leadership Memphis wants your ideas now for boosting college education in Memphis. With its “100 Things in 100 Days” campaign well under w...
Council to Vote on Fate of Lee House
Sometimes, a classic is allowed to gather dust indefinitely on the shelf, its value and artistic worth in danger of being forgotten.That’s the fate hi...
Saint Francis Begins Work on Imaging Center
Construction workers on Tuesday began renovating space at Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett for a new outpatient diagnostic imaging center.Hoar Construc...
Williams Joins Ronald McDonald House Charities
Keaton Williams has joined Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis as special events coordinator. Hometown: Atlanta.Education: B.S. in communicatio...
Look Outward to Assess U.S. Growth
Reports of the global economic demise have been greatly exaggerated. Perception, informed by history, contends that as goes the U.S., so goes the glob...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
In mythology, Narcissus was a hunter renowned for his beauty but, unfortunately, doomed because of his extreme pride. He was punished by being consign...
Timberlake Celebrates Improved Golf Course
MEMPHIS (AP) – Singer Justin Timberlake is celebrating the reopening of his Memphis golf course. Mirimichi has been closed since mid-January for...
No Recession Here: Election Spending Sets Records
WASHINGTON (AP) – Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry. This year’s volatile electio...
Treasury Announces New Warrant Auctions
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government said Tuesday it will auction warrants it received from two giant insurance companies as part of its efforts to ...
Official: Obama to Back More Business Tax Breaks
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of th...
Gov't Launches Plan to Help "Underwater" Borrowers
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is trying to jump-start its sputtering attempts to tackle the foreclosure crisis with an effort to as...
Battle Looms Over Health Care Repeal if GOP Wins
WASHINGTON (AP) – If you thought passing the health care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this f...
Events
Methodist South Hospital will hold a lunch and learn titled “Women’s Gynecological Health” Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in meeti...
Greenbrook Apartments Financed for $29.5M
Greenbrook Apartments on the south side of Macon Road has been financed for $29.5 million. Mid-America Apartments LP financed the property through Pru...
TDOT Workers Make Bridge Earthquake Ready
Tennessee Department of Transportation workers are trying to make the Interstate 40 Hernando DeSoto Bridge earthquake resistant. Starting Tuesday, the...
Joe Ford Awarded $747 Monthly Pension
The Shelby County Retirement Board has awarded former interim mayor Joe Ford a monthly pension of a little more than $747. The award is $450 less than...
County Commissioners Begin Work With Committees
Shelby County Commissioners elected and re-elected in the Aug. 5 elections get down to work Wednesday with the first committee sessions of their four-...
New Book Tells Story of Cooper-Young
A newly published book tells the colorful history of one of Memphis’ most unique neighborhoods, Cooper-Young, through photographs, essays and a ...
Lott Appointed Director of General Services Div.
Martha Lott is the latest county government appointed official to make the transition to Memphis City Hall. Lott has been tapped by Memphis Mayor A C ...
Petties Drug Case Begins Moving to Next Phase
After several years of report dates that take less than five minutes, the largest drug case ever prosecuted in Memphis federal court is beginning to m...
