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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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“We’re thinking about a Jewish deli and an Irish pub. And what if we could get a really nice Lebanese place that would be a nod to St. Jude. We’d like to honor the history of this being an immigrant neighborhood.”
Brother Terence McLaughlin changed the timbre of life in Memphis by admitting the first Black student to the Brothers’ local high school before being sent away by church leaders incensed with his independent thinking.
Tom Intrator is developing a number of Downtown properties with the help of PILOTs. Related story:
The sentiment among almost anyone who can read a balance sheet is developments that couldn’t get off the ground in the past three years are going to need a lot more than luck in the inflation the Federal Reserve is trying to control with interest rates. Local architect has liens against New York developer totaling $525kRelated story:
Forty percent of all freight in the United States moves by rail. Cutting off the supply, experts say, would cripple the economy and decimate the still-rebounding supply chain. Local leaders ask Buttigieg for more airport funding Getting ice off the wings: The specs for the airport’s new consolidated de-icing facilityRelated stories:
In 2019, before the pandemic began, Memphis had an adult, daytime worker population of 47,337 people.
As the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seeks millions of dollars to boost pay and fill crime lab staffing shortages, Memphis leaders look for answers in Nashville, Houston and other cities that built their own crime labs. A tale of two cities: How Nashville built the crime lab that Memphis couldn’tRelated story:
Following the murder of Eliza Fletcher, questions loom about MPD’s systems in investigating violent crime.
Memphis Fashion Week founders established Arrow Creative as an incubator and studio space for local artists to “really push that creative entrepreneur spirit.”
“She had a very unique way of connecting with women of all ages, concerning real-life issues. She would often share her personal testimony and human experiences about life.” — Bishop Brandon Porter
Last Christmas, in a mountain of boxes, wrapping paper and ribbon, the on-site gift-wrapper at Saddle Creek had an epiphany.
Workers say they are perennially short-staffed and forced to deal with supply shortages and malfunctioning equipment, impeding customer service.
The store gives Casey O’Rourke space to hang decades of her fashion finds — from 1930s to early 2000s — and a place that will be ground zero for her gospel of reuse over support of the fast-fashion industry, which is responsible, by some counts, for up to 10% of global carbon emissions.
Judge Bernice Donald, born in DeSoto County, Mississippi, has been the first woman of her race to serve in every judicial position she has held, starting when she was elected to General Sessions criminal court here 1982.
Erick Anderson walked into the Burch Porter & Johnson law firm 40 years ago this month as a Manpower temp in charge of running the crank-shaft elevator.
Conservation Through Art is a blend of Tommie Dunavant’s love for art and her late husband, Billy Dunavant’s, zeal for waterfowl.
“The city of Memphis needs more affordable housing, but we want quality, affordable housing. We don’t want to treat people like they are second-class citizens,” Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard said.
“Meritan knows that happiness during the holiday season isn’t exclusive to children. Too often in our community, the joy of Christmas eludes others as well,” said the organization’s president.
Within months, the congregation will vote on whether to affiliate with another Methodist group or be independent.
The U.S. government issued $800 billion in PPP loans, but studies show that up to 15% — or $76 billion — in loans may have been awarded improperly, making it likely one of the widest abused federal programs in the modern era.
‘You understand how everything can change in the power of politics. You’re just human. You want to live your life,’ said Kostya Domaratskyy, who left his country to earn an MBA at CBU, and now is stranded in Memphis.
Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a pioneering female judge in Tennessee, received the Edward J. Devitt Award Friday, Oct. 28, for distinguished, lifetime service to the judiciary.
“There were so many of my friends that didn’t have their fathers in their lives, at least not in the way they wanted them to be. He filled that role for so many people,” said Paul Young, president and CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission.
“We were in Benghazi when the civil war started,” the surgeon said by video teleconference from the hospital in Basra, Iraq. “We were in Iraq when ISIS was invading. We were in Tripoli when the government of Eastern Libya decided they were going to fight the government of Western Libya.”
“Most of what we are doing now is tenant-improvement work, as opposed to building new buildings. But when we did these things out at Shelby Oaks, we would be the general contractor,” said Ron Belz, president and CEO of Belz Investco GP.