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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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John A. Smith is considered one of FedEx’s best operators. One analyst said, “What do you do? Put in a jockey that’s never won the derby on a horse, or do you put in a jockey that won a dozen derbies?”
Four liquor store owners and two moms have sued the City of Memphis, the Memphis Alcohol Commission and the owner of The Station over an alleged loophole in the city’s alcohol regulations.
The Chinese tile game is social, strategic and good for one’s cognitive ability. It’s also becoming increasingly popular.
It signs on to carry undisclosed volume of residential delivery, in multi-year contract.
As part of a long-term survival strategy, Christian Brothers University is considering a partnership with a sister campus located outside of Chicago.
“I am excited to grow creative collaborations around environmental humanities, especially care for water as our lifeblood,” Gretchen E. Henderson said.
Calvary Episcopal Church will celebrate the reconstruction of its 1935 Aeolian-Skinner organ, which was nearly silenced by the 2023 theft of its pipes.
Jeannine Barganier’s father ran the ride in the 1940s, met his wife between the soaring horses and passed its magic to the next four generations.
For people who shop at Shein and Temu, online merchants of low-cost fashion and electronics that are based in China, prices have gone up.
Tennessee Humanities will receive $200,000 for operations and an additional $50,000 to seed a challenge fund.
Public broadcasting has been threatened in the past, but local ties have largely enabled the stations to escape cutbacks — legislators don’t want to be seen as responsible for shutting them down. The current threat is seen as the most serious in the system’s history.
“Some people, their goal in life is to be their authentic selves. Most people never get there,” said a longtime friend. “(Lamar Sorrento’s) gotten there and gone past it, I think.”
As college enrollments have dwindled in the United States, many colleges have stepped up international recruiting to close the gap.
Some state humanities councils, funded primarily by the agency, will begin closing in the next month, Shelly Lowe said.
Shelly Lowe, who was asked to step down as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities by President Donald Trump in March, is giving a public lecture Thursday.
Graphyte is trying to be one part of the climate solution, straight from the ground up.
As international students at CBU and the U of M, like others across the country, have their visas revoked, the issue is setting up new quandaries for college administrators.
“I mean, Tom was the kind of person that made a university a community,” said former university president M. David Rudd of Tom Nenon, who died Friday, April 4, of cancer.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is using AI to build three-dimensional models of patient tumors while IMC is using it in customer service. And Southwest Tennessee is creating a new two-year associate degree in AI programming.
Dan Oppenheimer’s children say he saw no reason in retiring because his work gave him creative expression and avenues for improving the world.
Depending on people’s points of view, tariffs will jumpstart U.S. manufacturing and create jobs or mire the economy in inflation. There’s little in-between. Trump’s tariff push is a race against time, and potential voter backlashRelated story:
Appeal letters to Memphis Library Foundation supporters have already gone out as a new executive order would eliminate the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The company is closing a site in Lebanon, Tennessee, as it is ceasing service to a key customer.
“Knowing where the case is and what population they are in ... that will really shape what we do over the next several days.”Related story:
Tennessee’s herd immunity is high, but most physicians practicing now have never treated a case of measles. And adults, especially those between 40 and 68 years of age, might want another dose of the vaccine.