Mike Cody, Memphis ‘lion’ for justice, dies at 88
Mike Cody represented Martin Luther King Jr. in court, helped found Memphis Area Legal Services and was one of the people behind Breakaway Running.
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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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Transportation & LogisticsFedEx has a new way to help customers pick, pack, sort returns
FedEx processes hundreds of millions of returned items a year, a complicated dance, said the director of University of Memphis’ automated identification lab.
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Spirit of MemphisCommunity fridges an oasis in Memphis food deserts
What started as an effort to combat food insecurity in Memphis has evolved into a community of people looking out for one another.
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Transportation & Logistics EEOC sues FedEx for way disabled workers treated
The EEOC lawsuit says FedEx violated the Americans with Disability Act by not providing accommodations for workers loading and unloading freight.
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Spirit of MemphisA century later, Memphis honors Miss Lee and her school
During a 100-minute picnic at 1760 Peabody Ave., Memphians remembered Eva Lee and her school, where manners, art and music were part of growing up.
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Metro ‘High Conflict’ author will headline MIFA luncheon
Amanda Ripley will speak Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Our City, Our Story luncheon at the Memphis Hilton in East Memphis. It’s MIFA’s largest annual fund-raising event.
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Arts & Culture Rhodes College hosting free French film festival
The festival is supported by a grant from Albertine Cinémathèque, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American campuses.
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Real Estate Macy’s at Oak Court sells for $7M
A group of investors led by Poag Development Group purchased the East Memphis mall anchor and will lease the 400,000-square-foot space back to Macy’s.
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BusinessWhy locksmiths are key workers at Memphis International Airport
The airport has thousands of locks. When they stick, quit or jam up, locksmith Moises Lopez is on the spot, more than five pounds of master keys jangling from his belt.
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Downtown Morris Park was transformed. Could the same thing happen in Victorian Village?
The area of spotty grass, situated roughly between Manassas and Neely, became a park by default in the 1960s when five Victorian homes were torn down, says Scott Blake, executive director of Victorian Village Inc. CDC.
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Education U of M lost 20% of its engineering students. Could a new $45M center help?
Behind the scenes, Herff College of Engineering leaders are working against time and odds to improve enrollment.
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Education U of M rakes in record $100M with AI, drone and aquifer research
In two years, the University of Memphis has gone from a high of $48 million in external funding to $101 million, with faculty “thinking bigger and applying for bigger grants.”
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Transportation & Logistics Spirit adding nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale
Spirit entered this market in April 2022 with daily nonstops to Las Vegas and Orlando.
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Real EstateMemphis rent market finding balance after COVID hike
With a growing interest in renting and more units popping up across the city, Memphis’ rental market is a lesson in supply and demand.
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Business Habitat for Humanity opening second ReStore, will carry building materials
Similarly sized cities have two to three ReStore outlets. Memphis has never had more than one.
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Transportation & Logistics Friday will be Memphis airport’s busiest day of holiday weekend
Nearly 10,000 people are expected to go through security.
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Transportation & Logistics United flight diverted to MEM after turbulence, 1 taken to hospital
The flight, which originated in Cancun, was on its way to Chicago.
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Transportation & LogisticsFilling a hole: Airport’s never-used tram tunnel to be sealed
The airport is about to start on the largest modernization project in its history. But first, it needs to fill a little-known tunnel, 25 feet wide, 12 feet high and 1,500 feet long, under baggage claim.
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EducationAt 67, Vincent Clay is starting his art degree at U of M
He started college but quit decades ago. He never stopped wishing it could be different.
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EducationCBU still on probation; board will issue verdict in December
As campuses reopen, a shadow over Christian Brothers University is its probationary status.
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EducationFreshmen are moved in, but local college enrollment is down
One Memphis-area school says numbers are down because standards are up: “If that means we experience a bit of pain for a few years with a decline in freshman enrollment, then so be it.”
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Education U of M law school alumni to honor ‘Pillars’ in legal community
The sold-out event is the group’s largest fundraiser and will provide $25,000 in scholarships this year.
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EducationU of M to build world’s largest ‘wind wall’ for drone study
As part of work it will do for the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the university will also build a 400-foot rain chamber.
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MusicGrammy-winning professor captured vanishing blues and got singers work
The University of Memphis owns the countless hours on its label, High Water Records.
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Real EstateAfter three generations, Whitten Bros. Hardware sold
The new owner, 31-year-old George Sultani, hopes to unveil an e-commerce platform and open more Whitten Hardware stores in Memphis.
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