Ask the Memphian: Why did the city and state try to put a highway on Mud Island?
In this week’s Ask the Memphian, we look back at the 1980s plan to build a highway on Mud Island, and the efforts of the people who stopped it.
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June 2026
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A $30M renovation turned an apartment complex into a fresh start for 200+ families
“We sometimes say that we make our money in complexity,” said Sarah Jemison, head of ALCO, which just cut the ribbon on new affordable-housing units in Memphis.
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s drone delivery drop-off descending into Memphis-area market soon
Walmart is considering introducing drone delivery from one of its Memphis-area locations.
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New murals add vibrance to Wolf River tunnel on Germantown Greenway
Brightly colored depictions celebrating the Germantown Greenway are now greeting users as they walk, run or bike along the trail passing underneath Wolf River Boulevard.
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Arts Beat: ‘Sweeney Todd’ unites Memphis opera and theater
Opening this week: a darkly comic thriller about a barber whose quest for revenge turns into a spree of murder and cannibalistic meat pies. It also happens to be a beloved musical.
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Redbirds Recap: ‘Birds cap off dominant series with comeback win at Tides
Memphis tallies four crooked numbers en route to the fifth win of the series with Norfolk.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis drops Game 5 to Norfolk
Memphis jumped in front of Norfolk in the top of the first inning, but couldn’t keep the momentum going.
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Calkins: Otis Sanford tells his story — and it’s one that you should hear.
When Otis Sanford was growing up in Mississippi, his father would ask him, “What’s in the news?” Answering that question has taken Sanford to places neither of them could possibly have imagined. Now he’s captured the journey in a new book.
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In the age of social media and AI, college students are opening physical books less. But Rhodes professors still believe reading is fundamental.
For Rhodes College, a small liberal arts college that prides itself on creating lifelong learners, apathy about reading can feel not just like a challenge but an affront to its mission. Here’s why students are reading less than ever — and what professors are doing about it.
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At Midtown Hardware, one finds solutions, supplies and plenty of smiles
Pay a visit to Midtown Hardware on Summer Avenue, and you’ll enter the only independent hardware store in Shelby County owned and operated by women.
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Memphis native develops system that aims to put out fires in 15 seconds
Ethan Pretsch envisioned a system that could use AI and tech to specifically target fires and keep them from spreading.
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Cardboard and creativity: How 901 Games brings Memphis’ gaming community together
How a Midtown business creates community and space for gamers of all ages and creeds.
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Her father was addicted to crack cocaine, and she was in a gang. But her future was paved with better days.
Despite the ups and downs in LaQuita Hughes' life, the deaths, rejections and devastation, she’s given every day all she’s had. And that eventually landed her at her own pink, three-story Victorian-style home.
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Recipe Exchange: The Orpheum’s Cast Party banana pudding
Banana pudding has been the featured dessert at each Orpheum Theatre cast party for more than 30 years.
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Berlin-based artist turns photos surreal in Brooks exhibition
The last exhibition to open in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park is the first solo museum exhibition for David Uzochukwu.
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Calkins: The road to Graceland is an international embarrassment. We drove it to find out why.
Why is it taking nearly two decades to fix Elvis Presley Boulevard? I invited state Senator Raumesh Akbari to join me in my 2015 minivan for a drive-along. Here’s what I learned.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis out-wallops Norfolk for fifth consecutive win
Memphis jumped in front of Norfolk with a five-run second inning, eventually racing away to a 10-2 win.
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As part of a longheld family dream, Viet Hoa owners opening large international market
Han Square is opening, in part, in a former Life Church space in Cordova and will include the international market, a Southeast Asian food court, retail tenants and full-service restaurants.
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Dr. Bean’s Coffee opening new location in Arlington
Dr. Bean’s Coffee & Tea, founded in 2010, will be sharing the building with coffee repair-and-maintenance shop Jambards Coffee Equipment.
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‘Positive momentum’ in area fuels North Mississippi industrial development
Hillwood Investment Properties has broken ground on a 1.15 million-square-foot building, the first speculative building in the area in three years, which is a positive signal for the local industrial market.
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What makes a good animal-control officer?
How do cities and shelters keep bad actors away from those jobs? Screenings, background checks and even scouring a candidate’s social media help, but they aren’t perfect.
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Bailey: Complaints about Germantown garbage rates? Not at the public hearing.
Opponents to a signficant increase in Germantown sanitation services take a silent approach to voicing their opinions this time.
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Proposed Treadwell school project in question
Commissioners suggest funding should go to existing schools in need of repairs.
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The Early Word: The road to Graceland is a hot mess; Redbirds fight gets messy
New Treadwell school plan is in limbo, Hernandez Govan is back in jail and the Mempho lineup is out.
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Mississippi officials prepare for return to 2022 legislative maps
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson has instructed staff to begin preparing to return to the 2022 maps after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a court order.
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