A panel of experts shared their insights on how the pandemic has affected retail, office, industrial and multifamily real estate, and the effects long after COVID-19 is gone.

National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman is leaving in February to lead a museum in Baltimore. She arrived at the helm of the museum just as the city’s new activism began to surface.

Vice President Mike Pence called Memphis-born FedEx “a remarkable American company” and said it will be crucial to successful execution of a COVID-19 vaccination program.

The Health Department ordered In Love Memphis to close for two weeks, said Alisa Haushalter, Shelby County Health Department Director. That’s the minimum amount of time the agency can require a facility to close.

BancorpSouth is the fifth largest bank in the Memphis market based on local deposits.

This first phase will not involve the primary land at Tom Lee Park used for the annual Memphis in May Music Festival and World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Dozens of sites with varying procedures and requirements test public’s willingness, ability to get tested for COVID-19.

COVID-19 immunizations will rollout this month under a revised state plan that defines the priority orders for Tennessee residents. 

Shelby County Health Department health officer Dr. Bruce Randolph said that the agency will reexamine the loopholes or confusion in the current health directive.

While selectively adding some elective surgeries, Methodist anticipates it will pause elective procedures again in anticipation for increased COVID-19 cases stemming from the Thanksgiving holiday.

About 38% of area ICU patients were either COVID-positive or suspected of having coronavirus. 

The number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus remains above 500 for the third day in a row. 

Students need mentors to give guidance and support while taking the next steps after high school.

School and child care staff are slated to be part of the second — and largest — phase for immunizing Tennesseans in the state’s four-phase distribution plan.

The FedExForum reopens for basketball, we’re not fair with our philanthropic dollars, FedEx the company makes a strategic acquisition and another film festival is coming to Memphis.

A pilot program by JUICE Orange Mound will help single mothers grow their ideas for a business.

The next-to-last council meeting of the year saw some votes change, the simple become complex and the obvious spelled out. There was also a rare slip that saw an item that appeared to fail win approval after all.

People who potentially have been exposed but have no symptoms can return to normal life after 7 days, provided they have a negative test.

The senator from Tennessee told colleagues on the Senate floor Wednesday that being a senator is like “joining the Grand Ole Opry and not being allowed to sing.”

New ID card scanners, a computerized tomography baggage scanner and other measures have arrived at Memphis International Airport B Checkpoint as part of TSA’s Stay Healthy, Stay Secure campaign.

Commissioners questioned the Health Department’s response to the tent party in Hickory Hill Saturday that drew hundreds of people. Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter indicated there will probably be some changes but that there are limits on what her department can do. Later in the day there were some changes in that.

According to the Tennessee Healthcare Resource Tracking System, 92% of area intensive care unit beds and 93% of area acute care beds were in use.

The contract amendment increases Joris Ray’s annual salary to $293,550, up 3% from $285,000.

The VPOTUS is headed to the Bluff City, Bartlett is ready for a parade, and the Memphis City Council doesn’t need lobbyists to register. 

Council Chairwoman Patrice Robinson said council members who behave badly, as council member Edmund Ford Sr. did two weeks ago, can’t be removed or suspended. And restoring order is “a question of judgment” by the chairperson.