TSA urges flyers in busy season to check their carry-on — and their keychain
Kubotans, pepper spray and a host of other self-defense gadgetry will get you flagged at the airport security checkpoint.
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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Transportation & Logistics Memorial Day airport travel will top last year’s 15-year high
More than 10,000 people a day are expected to go through the TSA security checkpoint on Thursday and Friday.
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DowntownStreet cred: Behind-the-scenes man has run Beale for decades
In 1983, when Beale Street reopened as the city-owned entertainment district, Al James, now 71, became its official manager, running the hardscape of one of the country’s most famous streets like it was his own front yard.
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EducationBeloved teacher to retire, leaving 51-year history of his own at Briarcrest
“Bob Shirey is the only employee that was here the day that Briarcrest opened its doors and is still here,” said Caron Swatley, Briarcrest president.
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MusicU of M saxophonist will solo with US Army Concert Band in June
Two days before the concert, Andrew Stine will audition for an opening in the concert band, a test of nerve before one of the biggest days of his life.
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Education U of M says tuition and fees expected to increase for fall 2024
The proposed 4% tuition hike would raise $2.7 million a year for the University of Memphis; nearly 3% increase in annual fees would net more than $575,000.
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Transportation & Logistics Memphis International raising airline rents and landing fees by almost half
Expiring COVID-19 pandemic grants and inflation force higher costs on airlines, but ticket prices aren’t expected to rise.
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Education U of M hires dean of communication, fine arts
She has done extensive research in the use of music to promote well-being and alleviate pain.
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Business Graphic Packaging to lay off 73 workers, close plant in July
The layoffs will begin in early July and conclude by the end of the month.
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Spirit of MemphisMemphian and seed vault partner to receive World Food Prize
Cary Fowler, a 1967 graduate of White Station High, and Geoffrey Hawtin created the “doomsday vault,” an underground seed storage facility built in the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway, 600 miles from the North Pole.
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Transportation & LogisticsSouthwest grads buckle up for aviation careers
The aviation operations tech program at Southwest Tennessee Community College is an associate degree designed to usher a new generation into the skies — for less tuition and time than the traditional four-year path.
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BartlettTwo antebellum wedding venues on market
Seventeen years ago, Denise Suthoff realized that her house was a perfect wedding venue. She opened Heartwood Hall to weddings first and then added Cedar Hall to accommodate the business pouring in.
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Visual Arts Airport honors student artistic achievement in 17th annual contest
Much of the art is for sale; it will hang in baggage-claim area for one year.
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BusinessIP unlikely to sell to Brazilian company, analysts say
According to one analyst, it may make more sense for IP to explore selling its fluff pulp business to Suzano instead of the entire company.
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Transportation & Logistics FedEx jet makes emergency landing in Turkey
The plane, a Boeing 767, bumped in on the underside of its nose after the back wheels touched down.
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Health Care Trezevant partnership will offer ‘pop-in’ services for seniors
“It could be as simple as in the evening, ‘Hey, can you just check and make sure that Mama has dinner and that the phone is beside the bed, plugged in and charging.’”
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Business Brazilian firm reportedly offers to buy IP
Deal could be worth $15 billion, unnamed sources say.
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Education Hooks Institute takes long view of city in new U of M home
Daphene McFerren grew up among people who knew how to make a difference. Her parents, John and Viola McFerren, are folk heroes in Fayette County for helping organize Tent City in the 1960s.
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Health CareSt. Jude sharpening focus on AI, starting in radiology
The hospital will build algorithms to measure tumors, and then teach the system to simultaneously label where they are located, standardizing the host of ways physicians describe where tumors are located.
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EducationBeing a college freshman in pandemic was tough, then it got worse
LaNerra Gray lost her scholarships, then her mother, but nothing was going to keep her from earning a teaching degree.
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Education Former head of CBHS named interim president at CBU
Chris Englert was principal/president at CBHS for nearly three decades. He left in 2019 to take another assignment.
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Performing Arts Germantown graduate turned Broadway actor found dead
Thay Floyd, who performed on Broadway in “Waitress” and “A Christmas Story,” got his start in Germantown High School fine arts department.
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BusinessWest Tennessee Legal Services looking for offices, attorneys for July 1 start
WTLS expects to immediately need 10-15 attorneys and support staff for new Memphis office.
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Arts & Culture First female Episcopal priests documentary screening at Paradiso
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church, Memphis is one of 11 cities nationwide selected for a one-night viewing of the new documentary “The Philadelphia Eleven.”
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Transportation & LogisticsFedEx will lose about $2B in business when postal contract expires
Last fall, a FedEx official told supervisory-level pilots that he expected losing the postal contract would eliminate half the company’s daytime flying hours. That means FedEx could have 200 to 300 excess pilots by October.
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