Anyone paying attention to recent news headlines alone should have a pretty good indication that health care in the U.S. – really anywhere you look, on local, state or national levels – remains a byzantine, expensive proposition. Health care keeps getting more expensive. It involves navigating a lot of paperwork with bureaucratic legalese that bears the fingerprints of a tangle of stakeholders, including insurers, doctors and lawmakers.

2. Local Experts To Tackle Health Care Changes - Thursday, April 5, 2018

Eight years after the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, health care can still spark contentious debates around the country, though there are nevertheless a few things people can agree on.

Costs keep going up. Insurers have continued to pull out of the individual ACA marketplace, leaving that market segment volatile and uncertain. And there’s still no widespread consensus on how to plug the gaps that still exist in the country’s health care system.

3. Experts To Weigh In On Health Care Landscape - Friday, March 30, 2018

Eight years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the cost of health insurance premiums bought in marketplace exchanges locally has seen a big spike so far in 2018.

That’s according to a new report out from the Urban Institute, which notes among other things an average 32 percent jump nationwide between 2017 and 2018 for the exchanges’ lowest-priced “silver” plans.

4. Big Tobacco's Anti-Smoking Ads Begin After Decade of Delay - Wednesday, November 22, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) – Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend – but not by choice.

Under court order, the tobacco industry for the first time will be forced to advertise the deadly, addictive effects of smoking, more than 11 years after a judge ruled that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes.

5. Connecting The Pieces - Saturday, October 7, 2017

The Pinch District – a Downtown mini-neighborhood of only a few blocks sandwiched between the Memphis Cook Convention Center, Uptown, The Pyramid and the campus of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – has been a neglected donut hole of development for years, as investments have poured into other areas of Downtown around it.

6. Pinch District Redevelopment Discussion On Tap - Friday, October 6, 2017

The nine-block area between the Pyramid and the campus of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital known as the Pinch District is set to be remade in transformative fashion as part of the city moving closer to its bicentennial in 2019.

7. Leaders to Discuss Pinch District Progress - Monday, October 2, 2017

Nearly a year ago state and local officials joined representatives of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on the hospital’s campus to announce $37 million in state and local funding into public infrastructure around the hospital.

8. Buying a House? Here’s 12 Things You Must Do - Saturday, July 4, 2015

Anyone buying any home anywhere should have a checklist of things to do. In this area, there are several.

• Get a home inspection. Old or new, things may not be what they seem. As attorney Jean Harrison says of new homes, “Passing codes means they got at least a D-.” A home that has been pre-inspected could have serious flaws undiscovered by the seller’s inspector.

9. UT’s Tyndall Winning Fans Despite NCAA Investigation - Saturday, January 3, 2015

KNOXVILLE – Donnie Tyndall has hardly slowed down since the former Southern Miss head coach took over Tennessee’s basketball program in April.

Of course, Tyndall had little choice.

10. Baptist Begins Construction on $14.1 Million Pediatric ER - Friday, September 27, 2013

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. began construction this week on a new pediatric emergency department at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women.

11. Tobacco Firms Want Federal Court Decision Delayed - Wednesday, December 21, 2011

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – America's largest cigarette makers said Tuesday that the federal judge presiding over a decade-old lawsuit against the tobacco industry should delay her decision while other cases challenging new tobacco regulations are decided. The Justice Department, however, argued the case should move forward expeditiously.

12. Noffsinger Receives Leadership Award - Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Mike Noffsinger, sales manager for the Memphis location of the RJ Young Co., has received the John T. Crunk Leadership Award, an honor given to an employee who exhibits outstanding leadership traits and performance during the year.

13. After the Flood - Monday, June 14, 2010

For two weeks after the floodwaters in Nashville receded, lawyers from Bass, Berry & Sims PLC worked from makeshift offices all over the city.

Their own offices, on the 23rd through 29th floors of a Downtown building two blocks from the swollen Cumberland River, sustained no damage. However, the parking garage – which is also where the electrical and HVAC systems were located – flooded and stayed that way for days. Without power, none of the building’s tenants could return.

14. MLGW to Consider Contract With RJ Young Co. - Thursday, January 7, 2010

The agenda for today’s Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board of directors meeting is a light one.

Among the six items on tap is a resolution awarding a four-year contract for copy machine rental to RJ Young Co. in the amount of $612,948 and a resolution rejecting bids the utility received for various sizes of polyethylene pipe.

15. Bloodworth Named Chair of Urban Land Institute’s District Council - Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Russell Bloodworth has been named chair of the Urban Land Institute’s District Council representing Memphis and the Mid-South. He most recently served as assistant chairman to the previous chair, Frank Ricks of Looney Ricks Kiss.

16. Baldwin Joins Visible School As Department Chair, Professor - Wednesday, July 29, 2009

George Baldwin has been hired by Visible School as department chair and assistant professor of music business ministry and audio production.

17. Shoemaker Financial Appoints Jenkins Managing Partner - Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Thomas “Mac” Jenkins has been appointed managing partner of Shoemaker Financial. Jenkins joined Shoemaker in 1991 as a financial adviser, eventually becoming general manager of the firm in 2004.
In his new position he will be responsible for sales, recruiting, training and development of advisers. In addition to his management responsibilities, Jenkins also provides financial products and services to single and married individuals and small businesses.
He is a registered representative of Securian Financial Services Inc.

18. Renasant Names Wiegert VP, Mortgage Production Manager - Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Michael Wiegert has been named vice president and mortgage production manager for Renasant Bank in Memphis.

19. Kyocera Prepares for Opening of New Memphis Distribution Center - Tuesday, August 29, 2006

With the recent decision to locate a new distribution hub in Memphis, Kyocera Mita America executives have made it clear Memphis is "people friendly" enough for their tastes.

The phrase appears in the company's latest television commercial and has been echoed throughout its three-year-long "People Friendly" advertising campaign.