Patrick “Trey” Carter III has been named one of the Top 35 Millennial Influencers in the Country by the Next Big Thing Movement, a global network of more than 20,000 young professionals and creatives. Carter, president of Olympic Career Training Institute and an active community volunteer, is the only Tennessean to be included on the list. He will be honored Saturday, March 10, at NBTM’s Forward Conference in New York City alongside other influencers, including “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and YouTube vlogger Tyler Oakley.

2. Making History - Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Fittingly, the Memphis Redbirds ended their history-making season with a victory. On Labor Day in Colorado Springs, the Redbirds beat the SkySox 5-4 in 10 innings. Not only did the Redbirds finish with a franchise-best 91-50 record in Stubby Clapp’s first year as manager, they were a perfect 11-0 in extra-inning games.

3. College Football Notebook: Vols Get Bowl Upgrade, All-SEC Teams Named - Thursday, December 10, 2015

Last season, coach Butch Jones got Tennessee back to a bowl game. This season, they’ve moved up from the TaxSlayer Bowl to the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day.

It’s a tangible step for a program that finished 8-4, 5-3 in the SEC. And looking back over the schedule at what might have been, the Vols easily could have played for the SEC title or at least already have 10 wins.

4. Rieger Begins Work at Memphis Chamber - Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Tom Rieger recently joined the Greater Memphis Chamber as senior vice president of member development, a role in which he will oversee major fundraising activities, conduct membership drive campaigns and implement revenue enhancement opportunities.

5. IronHorse Makes New Hire, Launches Mutual Fund - Saturday, May 10, 2014

Memphis-based investment firm IronHorse Capital Management has hired a managing director for national sales, a new hire that comes at the same time as the firm has launched its first mutual fund product.

6. Mortgages Up 10 Pct. in April - Wednesday, May 9, 2012

T.S. Eliot described April as “the cruelest month” in his classic poem “The Waste Land” – but for Shelby County’s mortgage market, April turned out to be a bit more positive than that.

7. Hot Commodity - Monday, September 26, 2011

Standing on a sidewalk that faces Germantown Parkway, across from the entrance to Bellevue Baptist Church, a man wears a gold-colored track suit and backwards cap while waving an oversized sign in the shape of an arrow that announces to passing motorists, “We Buy Gold. Highest prices paid.”

8. Difficult Work Follows Debt Deal - Monday, August 8, 2011

The consensus among a variety of financial service professionals in Memphis who were questioned in advance about the outcome of the debt ceiling deal seems to have been proven right.

Lawmakers engineered a delicate compromise at the 11th hour. The nation’s borrowing capacity has been expanded, but programs elsewhere have been trimmed. Everyone at the negotiating table walked away with a win. And everyone at the negotiating table also lost something.

9. Complex Forces at Work in Debt Debate - Friday, July 29, 2011

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has begun talking about a trip to New York in September to meet with representatives of the three major credit rating agencies.

It would be a critical round of presentations by the governor and several top aides, since one of those rating agencies recently announced it might be forced to cut its rating on Tennessee’s credit if the federal government loses its own gold-plated credit rating in the coming days.

10. Q2 Mortgage Counts Fall 24 Pct. - Tuesday, July 12, 2011

A slide in mortgage activity between April and June, coinciding with a plunge in home sales, adds up to a housing market in Shelby County that’s still shell-shocked.

And whether or not anyone wants to believe the picture will improve anytime soon, significant headwinds still abound. Fixed mortgage rates are on the rise, and joblessness is still a drag on not only housing but the economy at large.

11. Manipulation Won’t Fix Financial Woes - Monday, July 4, 2011

The stimulus was an attempt to fill the gap from recession to recovery. The statistics and other fiscal guidelines for determining whether we are still in a recession seem to say we aren’t. But that’s a tough argument to make to those who continue to lose their jobs and whose homes are still “underwater.”

12. End of the Road - Monday, July 4, 2011

Not long after the Federal Reserve announced a controversial program in November 2010 to buy $600 billion in U.S. government securities, Tennessee’s junior senator found himself besieged by incredulous voters at a town hall meeting in Memphis.

13. Manipulation Won’t Fix Financial Woes - Friday, July 1, 2011

The stimulus was an attempt to fill the gap from recession to recovery.

The statistics and other fiscal guidelines for determining whether we are still in a recession seem to say we aren’t. But that’s a tough argument to make to those who continue to lose their jobs and whose homes are still “underwater.”

14. End of the Road - Friday, July 1, 2011

ot long after the Federal Reserve announced a controversial program in November 2010 to buy $600 billion in U.S. government securities, Tennessee’s junior senator found himself besieged by incredulous voters at a town hall meeting in Memphis.

15. IronHorse Capital Finds Niche Within Complex Economy - Monday, June 13, 2011

David Waddell, Kerr Tigrett and Chad Cunningham recognized opportunity amid the Great Recession two years ago.

16. Panel: Globalization Will Shape Economic Future - Monday, May 2, 2011

Dexter Muller, senior vice president of community development with the Greater Memphis Chamber, has a tongue-in-cheek quip at the ready to describe the manufacturing plant of the future.