Getting high-quality private schools to sign on is viewed as crucial to the success of the education savings account program, which will launch with up to 5,000 students zoned for Shelby County Schools, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, and the state-run Achievement School District.
FedEx said its Sunday deliveries are off to a good start, paced by seven-day delivery's 'critical' role in a record 2019 peak shipping season.
It's Jan. 22, and The Early Word is talking about brands, beignets, chess, beauty pageants and bugs. It's a banner day.
The retired lead singer of the local funk band was told his wife would be honored at Tuesday's City Council meeting. Instead, he was given an honorary street in Whitehaven, ahead of his 69th birthday.
Halfway through his rookie season, Ja Morant looks like an instant star. Perhaps nobody has seen him more and understood him better than Grizzlies broadcasters Elliot Perry and Brevin, both former NBA point guards.
A City Council committee took no action on Lorenzo Williams' $600,000 plan and wants to have further discussions on the proposal before doing so.
I own a restaurant in Downtown Memphis, and I can’t tell you the number of times employees ask to leave work at 8 p.m. because they don’t want to miss the only bus they can catch to get home at night. Some will miss out on $40 or $50 in wages because they leave work early.
Memphis Chess Club has transformed itself into a business, and is changing the shopfront space of a Downtown building into a café/coffee shop and its new home.
Entrepreneurs Faith and Mark Lansdon, owners of the Voodoo Café Food Truck, are bringing a little bit of New Orleans to the Bartlett area with a brick-and-mortar store.
Full-year net earnings per diluted common share rose 13% and the company's CEO says high single-digit or double-digit loan growth is "achievable" in 2020.
The rate hike marks a breakthrough for MLGW, which has had two other multi-year rate-hike proposals rejected by the Council in the past two years. The legal opinion on bonds backed by projected post-TVA savings was part of the compromise.
State Sen. Brian Kelsey and state Rep. Antonio Parkinson began campaigning Tuesday for legislation to compensate college athletes and to prevent the derailing of superstars such as former University of Memphis basketball player James Wiseman.
After months of declining to acknowledge its plans in the Frayser/Raleigh district, Amazon announced Tuesday it will hold a ground-breaking on Monday at 4055 New Allen Road.
Memphis has updated its online roster following the 2019 season.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation Tuesday to put Tennessee's Right to Work law in the state Constitution as state Sen. Brian Kelsey declared a potential conflict of interest because of his legal work against unions in other states.
A $1,235,000 contract amendment for research on the Memphis Sand aquifer has been executed by Memphis Light Gas and Water and University of Memphis. It's retroactive to last July 1.
The ballot question on broader residency for Memphis fire and police officers was approved by the council that left office at the end of December. During council committee discussions Tuesday, some of the six new members who joined the council this month had a chance to weigh in on the matter.
Nik Varty is out as CEO of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, which is considering selling its ServiceMaster Brands business.
The Tigers coaching staff used the weekend off as a teaching opportunity for their young team.
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 21, and the youngbloods over at the Memphis City Council will be talking about removing the residency requirement referendum from the ballot.
Tickets are still available to two events at Caritas and our Friday lunch at Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza; reserve now.
State Sen. Brian Kelsey is sponsoring a Right to Work constitutional amendment while battling unions in his outside job, raising questions about whether he has a conflict of interest.
You can find FiveThirtyEight.com predictions more than a month in advance of the Tennessee primary and nearly two weeks before votes are cast in the Iowa caucuses. How much faith should we have in these forecasts? Not a whole lot.
The New Orleans Pelicans ruined MLK Day by defeating the Memphis Grizzlies. But Jonas Valanciunas has a brilliant plan to make it right.
Thousands lined up to tour the National Civil Rights Museum Monday and at a Midtown forum, there was new reaction to Sunday's tour of the museum by Vice President Mike Pence. The reactions 52 years after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination show his legacy and what it means today remains a volatile topic.