VOL. 127 | NO. 70 | Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Athens Distributing Co.’s Memphis branch is on the grow, adding a substantial amount of warehouse space and investing in more modern equipment.
City’s investment firms deal with change
It’s a new day at prominent investment firms in Memphis. Different degrees of change are on tap at Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc., Duncan-Williams Inc. and Wunderlich Securities Inc. And though it’s reshaping the inner workings of those firms at the moment, some of those changes also could have an impact on the city around them.
Literacy Mid-South Thursday, April 12, will host its 2012 Corporate Spelling Bee from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Goldsmith Room at Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road.
As Pinnacle Airlines Corp. moves from restructuring to bankruptcy reorganization, an already complex corporate turnaround is about to get much more complex.
The idea that the consolidation of Shelby County’s two school systems will involve a choice between what one of the existing school systems has over what the other has is an oversimplification.
A year ago this month, Memphis hosted the annual World Airport Cities Conference and Exhibition.
Memphis City Schools superintendent Kriner Cash is one of three finalists to be superintendent of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools system.
REAL ESTATE RECAP
8707 Fay Road, Cordova, TN 38018 -
Cordova Presbyterian Church, 8707 Fay Road, is making preparations for its planned 12,000-square-foot sanctuary, according to a $2 million permit application filed with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement.
LOCAL COLUMNISTS
Finding ways to maximize office space isn’t really a new concept. After all, Dilbert has been parodying office life in and around the cubicle for more than 20 years.
Last week we offered a prayer of support and a personal “thank you” to our military and all of the other brave men and women, who place their lives on the line each day to protect our freedoms. This week let us highlight an organization that is known for “doing the most good” and working everyday to fight hunger, homelessness, addiction, poverty and abuse: The Salvation Army.
STATEWIDE
NASHVILLE (AP) – Volkswagen is conducting a national search to fill the most specialized of 1,000 new jobs at its Chattanooga plant.
REGIONAL
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippians will soon be able to buy stronger beer, which supporters say will allow beer lovers to sample more kinds of suds and increase business opportunities for breweries.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The Mississippi State Department of Health will require the Tdap vaccination for all students entering 7th grade beginning with the 2012-13 school year.
HEALTH CARE
ATLANTA (AP) – More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade searching for the causes of autism. In some ways, the research looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives to a freeway.