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November 2018
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Memphis Grizzlies Enes Kanter had a career-high 26 rebounds and scored 21 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. finished with 22 points and the New York Knicks overcame a poor shooting first half to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 103-98 on Sunday night. -
Memphians share time, show big hearts on Thanksgiving
In 2017, Memphis was ranked by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as the most charitable city in the country. According to the study, Memphians give 5.6 percent of their income to charitable causes. On Thanksgiving, a combination of monetary gifts, time and hard work showed that we’re a city of folks willing to answer the call when there’s a need. -
Business Movers & Shakers
The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee has elected Rev. Phoebe Roaf as its fourth bishop. Roaf, who will be installed in a consecration service May 4, is rector at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest African-American church in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, where she has served as the parish leader since 2011. Before St. Philip’s, she was associate rector for three years at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. Roaf, who earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and clerked two years for Judge James L. Dennis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, worked in commercial real estate before pursuing a call to serve the Episcopal Church as clergy. -
Metro Photo Gallery: Christmas in November
The Thanksgiving turkeys are not even in the oven yet, but Memphis has already had it's first dusting of snow and residents turned out by the thousands Saturday, Nov. 17, for the annual Whitehaven Christmas Parade and to welcome Santa as he choppered in from the North Pole to visit the Pink Palace and officially open the Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees. -
Memphis Grizzlies Jackson, Gasol lead Grizzlies past Kings 112-104
Rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. scored a season-high 27 points, Marc Gasol added 19 points and 15 rebounds, becoming Memphis' all-time leading rebounder, and the Grizzlies defeated the Sacramento Kings 112-104 on Friday night. -
Metro Photo Gallery: Early snowfall dusts Memphis
A light wintry mix of snow and sleet dusted Memphis Wednesday, Nov. 14, causing some schools to close early, a wedding party to take cover, and the city and local businesses to take precautions as winter weather conditions threatened the area on a late fall day. -
Business Pinnacle Financial approves buyback of up to $100 million in stock
Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has announced authorization of up to $100 million in common stock repurchases by Dec. 31, 2019. -
Business Movers & Shakers
The Seam, a Memphis-based provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, has appointed two new staff members. -
Memphis Grizzlies At The Horn: Jazz end Grizzlies home winning streak with 96-88 win
Joe Ingles scored 19 points, Rudy Gobert added 15 points and 16 rebounds and the Utah Jazz won their third straight, 96-88 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night. -
Memphis Tigers Basketball Geoff Calkins chronicles Season One with Penny Hardaway
Penny Hardaway is beginning his first year as coach of the Memphis Tigers — doesn’t that still seem surreal, reading it? — and Geoff Calkins of The Daily Memphian is going to write the book. -
Arts & Culture Jerry Lee Lewis playing NYE concert on Beale
Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk is hosting its 83-year-old namesake for a New Year's Eve concert. -
Real Estate Video: ‘Commercial Real Estate’ seminar highlights
The Daily Memphian’s Commercial Real Estate seminar featured Andy Cates, CEO and president of Brokerage Services for Colliers International; Blake Pera, vice chairman for ARA Newmark Memphis Multi-Family Office; Kemp Conrad, principal for Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors; Shawn Massey, partner of the Shopping Center Group; and Chance Carlisle, COO for the Carlisle Corporation. -
Business Fogelman Properties buys Jacksonville apartments
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties has joined with a Dallas company to buy a 268-unit apartment complex in Jacksonville, Florida. -
City of Memphis TVA’s new natural-gas power plant christened
State and local officials gathered Thursday morning in South Memphis for the ceremonial opening of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s new Allen Combined Cycle Natural Gas Plant. -
Business Leaders propose joint venture for Chamber, EDGE
Local government and business leaders have joined together to propose new changes to the economic development process, which includes a new joint venture to oversee how the Greater Memphis Chamber and the EDGE board recruit new jobs. -
Suburbs Bartlett: McDonald, Elliott win re-election in only contested races on Bartlett ballot
Bartlett incumbent Mayor Keith McDonald and Position 2 Alderwoman Emily Elliott were returned to office Tuesday with easy victories in the suburb’s municipal election. -
Business Movers & Shakers
Vaco Memphis has hired three employees for its supply chain and logistics team. Andy Gliemann and Victoria McDaniel will lead client relations and business development efforts for the division, including building and maintaining relationships with clients throughout the Mid-South. Elise Ladley will connect top talent and industry leaders with job placements at supply chain and logistics companies in the region. -
Suburbs Collierville: Incumbent aldermen secure easy wins; Warren takes open school board seat
Incumbent aldermen Maureen Fraser and Tom Allen were elected to new four-year terms Tuesday with easy victories in the Collierville town elections. -
Business Speakers tout advantages of diversity at Leadership Memphis breakfast
Five top executives from five large businesses in Memphis participated in a panel discussion Friday on the importance of building and maintaining diversity in the workplace. -
Business Movers & Shakers
Susan Hadley Maynor, vice president of economic development for the Greater Memphis Chamber, was named president of the Tennessee Economic Development Council for 2018-2019.
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October 2018
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Business Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin dies at 87
Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin, founder of a criminal defense law firm that includes his son, daughter and grandson, died Tuesday morning. -
Transportation & Logistics FedEx volunteers bundle ‘just the basics’ for storm victims
About 110 FedEx volunteers gathered in Memphis Friday, Oct. 26, to package more than 3,600 hygiene kits to replenish the warehouses of Heart to Heart International following a deadly tropical storm season. -
Construction starts soon on senior-living apartments in Germantown
Construction will soon start on the 161-unit Avenida Watermarq at Germantown, a senior-living development for residents 55 and older. -
Health Care Youth Villages takes its YVLifeSet model to four more markets
Memphis-based Youth Villages is awarding $10 million in grants to four jurisdictions to expand services for transition-age foster youth through its YVLifeSet model. -
Financial Services Trustmark earnings rise 5.9 percent year-over-year in Q3
Trustmark Corp. reported net income of $36.3 million in the third quarter of 2018, or diluted earnings per share of 54 cents, up 5.9 percent year-over-year.
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