Is investment in public infrastructure important? And should Tennessee have more dedicated revenue sources to pay for construction and maintenance of infrastructure across the state, or is the existing tax structure – primarily the state tax on fuel, and wheel taxes – sufficient to pay for what Tennessee needs to sustain and grow its economy?

2. More Companies Providing Some Parental Leave Pay - Saturday, February 17, 2018

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act ensures that employees with over a year of employment get 12 weeks unpaid time off from their jobs, and the Tennessee Maternity Leave Act allows certain female employees four months of unpaid leave for pregnancy, childbirth, care of a newborn and adoption.

3. Titans Set 2nd ‘Training Camp’ Next Week in Arizona - Friday, December 8, 2017

Road trip! The Tennessee Titans are trying something a little different for a two-game swing out West beginning with this Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals.

Sometime back in the off-season, team officials decided the Titans, rather than make two consecutive cross-country round trips, would only make one and stay in the Pacific time zone for the week in between the games with the Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers.

4. Wiping Slate Clean: Now Less About Who Can Afford It - Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The scales of justice in Tennessee are slowly tipping back toward the poor – and not so poor – helping them regain traction lost to often-minor transgressions.

Change is taking place in court battles and in the Republican-controlled Legislature, believe it or not.

5. Play Together, Win Together? Titans Hope So - Friday, August 25, 2017

By now you’ve filed away your memories of the 2017 eclipse and stored your viewing glasses in a safe place until 2566, Middle Tennessee’s next solar eclipse.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime event, so big that Tennessee Titans coach Mike Mularkey adjusted the team’s practice schedule Monday to allow his players and coaches to view the historic event as a group.

6. Enough Expectations to Go Around as SEC Football Season Approaches - Thursday, July 13, 2017

HOOVER, Ala. – The countdown to the start of the next college football season is now measured in weeks, not months. But at an event such as SEC Media Days, the future is always framed by the past.

7. Murder Charges Raise Questions About Bounty Hunters - Friday, May 12, 2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – About three weeks ago, just after midnight, a group of seven bounty hunters surrounded a car in a Wal-Mart parking lot and blocked it from leaving, according to court documents. Authorities say the bounty hunters believed an ex-convict who had skipped out on several court appearances was one of four men in the parked car.

8. Long-Suffering Titans Fans Finally Have Their Team Back - Friday, December 23, 2016

Tennessee has its NFL team back. The Titans had slipped off the national radar about eight years ago and – to a lesser extent – out of Nashville’s consciousness a few years after that, sometime around the end of the Jeff Fisher era and throughout the following years.

9. Snowball Express Benefits Local Families Who Lost Military Parent - Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Seven local families are in Dallas/Fort Worth this week for the 11th annual Snowball Express Weekend, an all-expense-paid holiday gala for children of fallen military heroes.

They are among approximately 1,800 children and spouses of fallen military participating in the event that runs Dec. 11-15.

10. Global Ministries Continues to Take More Heat - Tuesday, May 24, 2016

The receiver for the Warren and Tulane Apartments is in place with the notice filed in Memphis federal court last week that Foresite Realty Management LLC had accepted the job and that its bonding is in place.

11. Bond Executives Indicted On Theft, Tax Charges - Saturday, April 23, 2016

The president of Memphis Bonding Co. and a manager at 24 Hour Bonding Co. of Memphis were indicted separately Friday, April 15, by a Shelby County grand jury on theft and sales tax fraud charges.

12. Bond Executives Indicted On Theft, Tax Charges - Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The president of Memphis Bonding Co. and a manager at 24 Hour Bonding Co. of Memphis were indicted separately Friday, April 15, by a Shelby County grand jury on theft and sales tax fraud charges.

13. Bail Bond Executives Indicted in Separate Theft-Tax Fraud Cases - Saturday, April 16, 2016

The president of Memphis Bonding Co. and a manager at 24 Hour Bonding Co. of Memphis were indicted separately Friday, April 15, by a Shelby County grand jury on theft and sales tax fraud charges.

14. Bail Bond Executives Indicted in Separate Theft-Tax Fraud Cases - Friday, April 15, 2016

The president of Memphis Bonding Co. and a manager at 24 Hour Bonding Co. of Memphis were indicted separately Friday, April 15, by a Shelby County grand jury on theft and sales tax fraud charges.

15. Appeals Court Vacates Kyle Ruling on Bail Bond Rules - Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Shelby County Chancery Court has no jurisdiction over the rules that Criminal Court judges make for bail bond companies.

That’s what the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled in a case that reversed a March decision by Chancellor Jim Kyle, which barred Criminal Court judges from enforcing a drug-testing requirement in its recently updated rules for bail bond companies.

16. Building Boom Strains Labor Pool, Supply Chain - Saturday, July 4, 2015

Middle Tennessee’s red-hot construction boom is becoming a victim of its own success. Architects, contractors and everyone in between, including Metro Codes, are up to their necks in work.

It’s a happy time of an industry that also can see long, slow periods of stagnation.

17. Sherman Joins Campbell Clinic as Sports Medicine Physician - Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Dr. Henry “Hank” Sherman has joined Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics as a sports medicine family practice physician in its Southaven office. Sherman treats patients who suffer from a variety of orthopedic injuries – from competitive athletes looking to get back in the game to weekend warriors who want to stay active later in life.

18. Contractors Warn of Bad Surety Bonds - Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A rash of bad construction project surety bonds in three states and American Samoa landed at Memphis International Airport this summer with plans to demolish the Regency Hotel on the grounds of the airport.

19. Minority Business Development Agency Opens State’s First Business Center in Memphis - Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Friday officially opened its first business center in the state of Tennessee at 158 Madison Ave., Suite 101, in Downtown Memphis.

20. New Org. Dedicated to Hearing-Impaired Children’s Needs - Friday, October 21, 2011

A new nonprofit organization is working to improve the literacy needs and communications skills of hearing-impaired children and their families in the Memphis area.

The Deaf Family Literacy Academy (DFLA) of Memphis, which has been in the pipeline for roughly two years, was founded with the financial support of Tennessee-based Dollar General, which wanted to fund a literacy program in Memphis and Shelby County.

21. UT, Board of Regents Looking to Cash in on Bond Prices - Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Leaders at Tennessee's two higher education systems are looking to take advantage of historically low interest rates as a means of funding as much as $1.5 billion in new construction projects on college campuses across the state.

22. Capwell Shares Love of Reading Through Books From Birth - Friday, March 4, 2011

After Nora Capwell’s children were born, she left her career in the financial industry to pursue volunteer work and eventually became involved with the Junior League of Memphis, a nonprofit organization of women committed to improving the Memphis community.

23. Health Care Reform Bill Could Cost Tenn. $735M - Wednesday, October 7, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday a health care reform proposal in the U.S. Senate could cost the state more than $730 million.

Bredesen spoke to reporters during a teleconference from New York where he met with all three national credit ratings agencies about the state's bonding rate.

24. House Budget Proposal Sent to Full Floor Vote - Wednesday, June 17, 2009

NASHVILLE (AP) – Tennessee’s Republican House speaker is describing a state spending plan headed for a full floor vote as a “compassionate budget” because it doesn’t include some of the deeper cuts proposed in the Senate Republican version.

25. Comptroller Suggests Reforms for Bond Financing - Monday, May 4, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee comptroller on Friday recommended preventing smaller cities and counties from entering into complex bond deals because they are too risky.

Some cities, counties and utility districts in Tennessee are struggling under derivative bonding arrangements that sent their interest payments skyrocketing and suddenly reduced how much time they have to pay off their debts.

26. Bill to Protect Tenn. State Employees Progresses - Wednesday, March 4, 2009

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A proposal giving Gov. Phil Bredesen greater flexibility in preventing state employee layoffs is among several bills that have passed the Legislature to help an administration facing major budget cuts amid deep recession.

27. Memphis Process Server Goes Where Few Women Go - Monday, March 31, 2008

Georgette Brooks has always wanted to do something in the legal field.

A former respiratory therapist, Brooks started in the legal field 10 years ago, working with her uncle as a bail bondsmen at his company, Brooks Bail Bonding Co. in Downtown.

28. Leadership Law Class is Off to Sprinting Start - Thursday, January 25, 2007

The Tennessee Bar Association is on a mission to groom the next generation of leaders in the state's legal community. The TBA has been doing that for the past three years with its Leadership Law program.

29. Archived Article: Comm Focus - Friday, October 11, 2002
By STACEY WIEDOWER

Guardianships make long-term decisions easier

By STACEY WIEDOWER

The Daily News

As Memphis moves forward into the 21st century, area residents are faced with an inevitable fact the population is aging, and people over ...

30. Archived Article: Market Briefs - Monday, July 17, 2000
The Building Owners and Managers Association lunch meeting begins at noon Wednesday at the Plaza Club in the Redbirds headquar The Building Owners and Managers Association lunch meeting begins at noon Wednesday at the Plaza Club in the Redbirds head...

31. Archived Article: Comm Focus - Friday, April 7, 2000
By Stacey Wiedower Activities abound as spring arrives By Stacey Wiedower The Daily News Spring is finally here. The sunshine lasts a little longer, the weathers nice every other day or so, and Mid-Southerners from all corners of Shelby County and b...

32. Archived Article: Calendar - Monday, November 15, 1999
Nov Nov. 15 The Memphis Songwriters Association will meet at 7 p.m. in the University of Memphis Harris Music Building, Room 101. For more information, call Michael Porter at 577-0906 or e-mail mporter@vantek.net. The Quality Center will offer a 36-...