The working capital for small businesses is partially a response to complaints from local businesses that they either can't reach the Small Business Administration or their bankers for help in getting federal stimulus funds or they have been denied the federal funding.
State Rep. John DeBerry said Monday he has no other choice but to challenge a decision by the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee to remove him from the August primary.
FedEx Freight says it will offer "voluntary furlough opportunities" to a small percentage of workers to offset declines in volume due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It's April 14, and today the Spaghetti Warehouse renovation should take a step forward. We've also got a furlough at FedEx, forgivable loans for Downtown businesses and a new micro loan program for those denied funding by the Small Business Administration.
The state reports 1,331 confirmed cases in Shelby County.
It's Monday, April 13, and Shelby County Schools is promising to have a big announcement today about a new virtual learning platform. We've also got a local company whose business is lighting up the air and a diamond dealer finding new ways to make people shine.
Social distancing may last another eight weeks or more. And, even then, don't expect Memphis to reopen overnight.
In this exclusive look inside Baptist’s COVID-19 units, leaders have reconfigured the hospital to meet the specific demands of the virus, found ways to preserve crucial resources for the surge, and are deploying groundbreaking treatments to save lives.
Jimmy Sexton and agents at CAA just negotiated contracts for 43 NFL players worth a total $611.5 million. How do you do that in the midst of pandemic? Well, you start by never leaving your home.
Working at home with pets can be a blessing or a curse. Just remember, whatever you think, they might just think the same thing.
Within a week of the city order to close because of the coronavirus, lesson-hungry homebound families were able to access Museum To Go, a sampler of Pink Palace artifacts, activities and movies. Kevin Thompson mobilized his gloved-and-masked education team to make museum content available in record time.
Moore Tech looks at scheduling appointments for students to use equipment. Southwest builds on online learning programs developed prior to the pandemic.
The lightning speed at which the novel coronavirus moves and attacks has made testing, tracing, and targeting its path even more difficult and vital.
The Village at Germantown has confirmed recent cases of the novel coronavirus in employees and residents. Facility requesting help of county health department.
Scheidt, a retired cotton industry executive who was the former chairman of Hohenberg Brothers, gave millions of dollars along with his wife, Honey Hohenberg Scheidt, to Memphis nonprofits and arts causes.
The parking lots of 17 Memphis-area churches were mostly bare Easter morning as they adhered to social-distancing guidelines during the pandemic, but some found ways to engage their congregations nonetheless.
Shelby County Health Department reported 67 new novel coronavirus cases Sunday for a total of 1,216. The number tested is 12,843. Tennessee Department of Health reports 194 new cases for a total of 5,308. Nearly 66,830 have been tested statewide.
Through criticism, long days and a need for calm in the face of a pandemic, Alisa Haushalter maintains her principles while trying to provide answers for an invisible enemy
LeBonheur Children's Hospital and UTHSC are working to curb the number of firearm injuries involving children. The numbers are increasing locally and statewide.
Mario Chiozza witnessed something horrible but it was later difficult to measure the good that came from it.
In Saturday's COVID-19 Task Force briefing, officials shared information regarding hospital preparedness for a surge, as well as insight into predicting when the surge will come.
According to data released by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland late Friday afternoon, 278 patients are in city hospitals — 85 of them in ICU — awaiting a final diagnosis.
MicroPort Scientific and its Arlington-based orthopedics division have donated 100,000 surgical masks to Memphis Fire Services, and the company plans to donate 100,000 more locally soon.
The best-case scenario assumes statewide testing and improved contact tracing.
Two Shelby County Election Commissioners say on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that the method being discussed for making the choice on new voting machines would keep the price of the machines a secret until the decision is made because of legal opinions.