“I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies.

Pete & Sam’s celebrates its 70th anniversary this year in a spiffed up restaurant, thanks to the Bomarito brothers taking on local investor partners and a late 2017 fire that caused the place to close for almost five months for cleaning and updating.

One by one, each Big Jump Project advisory committee member explained the project they want to pursue in South Memphis, based on inspiration from a week spent in the Netherlands in June.

The Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission is working to secure state funds to create a second entrance, or exit, where the road inside the industrial park currently dead ends on the south side.

FedEx earnings rose nearly 38 percent in the June-August quarter from a year ago, but fell short of analysts’ expectations.

Memphis doesn’t want to miss the boat if and when container ships start plying the Mississippi River on a regular basis.