Ray’s Take: This is the time of year when we are all thinking about how blessed and thankful we are for all good things in our lives. But in reality, we should be making gratitude a part of our daily lives all year-round. 

It only takes one spark to start a fire, and for Kevin Kimberly, it only took one class on policy to ignite his passion for education.

White Claw Hard Seltzer is the main reason malt beverage maker Mark Anthony Brewing Inc. wants to establish its own distribution center in Memphis.

For the first time the city saw the light, at least in a measured way.

A new scam is targeting Memphis-area small-business owners and franchisees, with victims in two reported cases losing at least a day’s revenue.

Tech901, a local nonprofit specializing in IT training has been awarded a grant from FedEx Corp. to help fund instructional resources, textbooks and vouchers for certifications testing.

Construction is to start by January on The Flats at Overton Square, part of which will be among the first live/work apartment buildings in Midtown.

Memphis-based accounting firm Grisham, Wildman & Work has been acquired by Chattanooga-based HHM CPAs.

It’s said that Antigua has 365 beaches, one for every day of the year.

There is no doubt that Memphians are generous. Memphis is a city of fixers, doers and people who see it for what it can be, not for what it currently is. Residents want to leave the Bluff City better than they found it, and it shows.

Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has announced authorization of up to $100 million in common stock repurchases by Dec. 31, 2019.

The proposed $950 million Union Row development will soon start appearing on the agendas of local government boards, which will consider everything from tax incentives to the design of the massive mixed-use project. 

A company that converts the methane given off by landfills into renewable natural gas apparently has plans for a $3.3 million construction project near the South Shelby Landfill in Memphis, records indicate.

The Links at Fox Meadows is getting a $1.2 million renovation.

The Downtown Memphis Commission is collecting feedback that will help it shape the next decade of development and initiatives for the Bluff City’s core.

Memphis will soon be home to a unique indoor skatepark, complete with a skate shop and coffee shop. Society Skatepark & Coffee, a 10,000-square-foot facility just off Broad Avenue, should open the weekend of Nov. 17.

Sears Holdings will shutter the doors of its Southland Mall store, the company announced Thursday, Nov. 8.

Atlanta-based late-night ­­­­­­dining staple Krystal will construct a new “prototype” location at 4395 Elvis Presley Blvd.

The maker of Mike's Hard Lemonade, a major customer of Memphis contract brewery Blues City Brewing, is seeking a tax abatement for a warehouse and distribution center in southeast Memphis.

The Seam, a Memphis-based provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, has appointed two new staff members.

When it comes to job interviews, I’ve seen it all. Most interviews come in a fairly straightforward format. You do a phone screen with human resources and then a phone interview with the hiring manager. Afterward, you come in person for meetings with the hiring manager and other folks on the team.

What if you could redesign your website with proven data? What if – before you ever began designing your new site – you knew the type of content your target audience wanted most, as well as what headlines, navigation menus and even colors would lead them deeper into your site to convert to a specific goal? Even better, what if that type of data were easily at your fingertips?

Loosely holding a rolled-up program in his hand, Dustin Lehmann tapped it on his knee as if playing along with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Veteran’s Day performance Saturday night.

Construction plans indicate a new Uptown brewery project would involve at least some renovation and partial demolition at an old industrial or mill facility. 

Memphis’ civic pride was wounded by the homegrown Church of God in Christ’s 2009 decision to move its biggest annual gathering up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. In a changing landscape of church leadership and amid complaints about Memphis’ lack of capacity to host such a large (30,000-plus) gathering, the Memphis-based Pentecostal denomination inked its first three-year deal with St. Louis.