Spirit Airlines adds summer, fall flights to Dallas-Fort Worth
The low-cost carrier hopes to find a niche in the fourth-busiest destination from Memphis.
Jane Roberts
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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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Education Luther McClellan, first Black graduate at Memphis State, dies at 83
“Something that he made very clear is that once you make up your mind that this is your goal, you stick with it, and you don’t let anything deter you from it,” said Linda Hall, associate dean of multicultural affairs.
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Spirit of MemphisRhodes professor wrote the book and so much more on W.E.B. DuBois
Due to the work of Earl Wright II, DuBois now gets credit for conducting the first scientific urban sociological research. When Wright was in college, that credit went to the University of Chicago.
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Transportation & Logistics FedEx top attorney will retire this year
Allen joined FedEx in 1982 and served in a variety of leadership roles before taking on his current responsibilities in 2017.
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Transportation & Logistics Airport’s Concourse A coming down, board OKs $8.4M demo contract
Demolition of Concourse A will take from eight to 10 months, but public disruption is expected to be minimal. Other work starting this fall will require rerouting traffic coming into the airport.
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Metro Global tech outage affects Memphis businesses, leaves travelers stranded
The worldwide internet outage foiled operations for banks, media companies and emergency services. Canceled flights left passengers at Memphis International Airport missing vacations, weddings and funerals.
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Business St. Columba director taking new assignment in Florida
Brad Thompson is the new executive director of DaySpring Conference Center, owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida. He starts Sept. 1.
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Transportation & Logistics Southwest Airlines under FAA review after series of near misses
The awareness of flight safety in the United States was heightened in January when a chunk of a Boeing 737 owned by Alaska Airlines blew off in the air.
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Transportation & Logistics Southwest ending ‘cattle-call’ boarding; corporate travelers cheer
One analyst says premium seating could add up to $1.5 billion in revenue a year to Southwest, which reported losses on Thursday.
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Visual Arts Hooks Institute invites art entries for exhibit on beauty of change
The contest is open to Memphis-area artists 18 and older.
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Business Civil Rights Museum hosts symposium on 1964 Freedom Summer
Surviving members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, plus authors and filmmakers will talk about their experiences in the bloody summer of 1964 in Mississippi.
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Spirit of MemphisBrooks gets first pick of Belz family Chinese art collection
From the Belz family to the Brooks, museum curators have selected 95 pieces and expect to take several more from the iconic art collection.
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EducationU of M working on Navy’s dime to solve sea-erosion puzzle
Its two-week experiment is running now in the world’s largest cavitation channel on Presidents Island.
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August 2024
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No lines, but coffee and snacks at St. John’s Episcopal
Poll workers outnumbered voters shortly after opening.
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DowntownFormer Jerry Lee Lewis club will reopen as new brand on Beale Street
The club closed abruptly July 31, leaving more than 20 people without jobs.
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Metro Got student loan debt? Government email may offer relief
Notices going to millions of borrowers give them 30 days to opt out of possible loan relief. It would include those whose balances now surpass the size of the original loan or who have been paying on their loans more than 20 years.
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Metro Lucia Gilliland was go-to for nonprofits, charitable leadership
Her first job out of college was working for millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in New York. She got the job through a New York Times want ad.
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EducationCollege admissions officers crossing fingers for new FAFSA
“This affects millions, millions of people in our country. The stakes are high because the ripple is wide,” said one local career adviser.
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Golf Dwight Drinkard made FESJC, St. Jude marathon high-stakes events
He directed the FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament for 13 years, starting in 1986 overseeing its move from Colonial Country Club to TPC Southwind. In 2000, St. Jude made him its first director of sports marketing, hoping to reinvigorate the flagging marathon. He died Aug. 5 at age 76.
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Spirit of Memphis Cordell Walker poured all he had into Alpha Omega Veterans Services
Under Walker’s leadership, Alpha Omega Veterans Services grew from a duplex in South Memphis to a nonprofit that helped more than 15,000 veterans get training, treatment and access to the benefits they were due.
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BusinessAt Edmundson Berry, EQ is as big as balance sheet
Business coaches respond to clients’ demand for help with emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ.
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Ford Megasite U of M researcher receives $500K to design BlueOval, Volkswagen transit
“The goal is really, looking statewide to see how we can improve accessibility to jobs. And then if the solution works, the lesson learned in one city may be applied to another city.”
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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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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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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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