VOL. 124 | NO. 223 | Thursday, November 12, 2009
The health care reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week has caused members of one small business group to circle their wagons and call out for help.
Baptist Memorial Health Care plans to sell its hospital in Ripley, Tenn., to HMC/CAH, the parent corporation announced Wednesday.
The Tennessee Supreme Court in late October adopted new and amended rules for pro bono service, in-house legal work and cross-jurisdictional practice.
Early voting in the last two local elections of 2009 begins today for voters in East Memphis and East Shelby County.
It’s often difficult being a sports fan around here, but the past two weeks have been especially brutal for Memphians.
To the financier blessed with what looked like the Midas touch, she was “that idiot woman from Barron’s.”
Two of the leading corporations in the Memphis orthopedics industry have announced new products this week.
Liz Conway has joined Memphis Area Legal Services Inc. as director of development. In that capacity, she will oversee MALS’ annual Access to Justice Campaign.
MEMPHIS AREA
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Memphis Grizzlies have announced an enhancement to TV game broadcasts to give viewers a feeling of being in the arena.
STATE LEGISLATURE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp both consider themselves the main challenger to Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam for Tennessee's gubernatorial nomination. And yet they spend a lot of their time preoccupied with each other.
STATEWIDE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Knoxville's utilities division for repeated raw sewage overflows.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Southwest Airlines will begin nonstop flights from Nashville to St. Louis in 2010.
REGIONAL
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A new poll shows Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy and don't think the federal government is doing enough to address either.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Board of Education has rejected three more applications for new charter schools in the state.
NATIONAL BUSINESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A study released Wednesday warns that nine states are barreling toward an economic disaster similar to California's ongoing fiscal crisis that has been marked by IOUs and budget-busting deficits.
NEW YORK (AP) - After just three months as head of embattled insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the bailed-out company can pay employees, according to a published report.
REAL ESTATE
NEW YORK (AP) - Just one in 20 Americans say they plan to buy a home within the next year, and they're most likely to be 34 years old or younger and living in the South or West, according to a survey released Wednesday.