NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee Supreme Court justices peppered lawyers trying to block the state's lethal injection protocol with questions on Thursday, challenging them to declare some other execution method they would consider acceptable under the law.

2. Airlines Ask Congress to Roll Back Airfare Rule - Friday, May 9, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) – Airlines tried and failed to block a federal rule making them tell passengers up front the full cost of airfare, including government taxes and fees. So they're trying another route, asking Congress to do what the Obama administration and the courts refused to do: roll back the law.

3. Goldsworthy Pitches Germantown Schools Alternatives - Friday, November 8, 2013

The Shelby County Schools board’s first look Wednesday, Nov. 6, at a specific plan by Germantown city leaders to transfer the three public schools within the city and named for it into a Germantown municipal school system indicated the school board probably wasn’t swayed.

4. Election Day Arrives for Municipal School Boards - Thursday, November 7, 2013

Voters in Shelby County’s six suburban towns and cities go to the polls Thursday, Nov. 7, for the second time in a year to elect school boards for their respective municipal school districts.

5. County Commission to Fill School Board Vacancy - Monday, September 9, 2013

Shelby County Commissioners bring the countywide school board up to its full strength of seven members Monday, Sept. 9, by appointing someone to the open District 6 seat.

The commission meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Vasco Smith County Administration Building, 160 N. Main St.

6. Senate Panel Considers Labor Board Nominees - Friday, May 17, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans said Thursday they would not support five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, raising the possibility the troubled agency could be rendered mostly inoperable later this year.

7. Obama to Nominate Package of Labor Board Members - Wednesday, April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated three candidates for full terms on the National Labor Relations Board, which has been in limbo since a federal appeals court invalidated his recess appointments to the agency.

8. Court: Obama Appointments are Unconstitutional - Monday, January 28, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) – In a setback for President Barack Obama, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that he violated the Constitution in making recess appointments last year, a decision that could severely curtail the president's ability to bypass the Senate to fill administration vacancies.

9. Michigan House Approves Right-to-Work Limiting Unions - Wednesday, December 12, 2012

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol.

10. MCS to Consider Charter Surrender Resolution - Monday, December 20, 2010

Memphis City Schools board members may make the most important decision of their tenures Monday night with a resolution to surrender the school system’s charter.

If the resolution passes and is then sent to the Shelby County Election Commission, the charter would go to Memphis voters for a referendum sometime in March.

11. Schools Showdown May Have Nashville Detour - Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The compromise to the standoff between Shelby County’s two public school systems is a state legislative study committee that could be introduced on the first day of the legislative session next month in Nashville.

12. Clark Calls Foreclosure Counseling ‘Powerful’ Way to Help - Thursday, June 11, 2009

As city and county leaders continued wrestling this week with the details of a lawsuit against national mortgage lending companies they’ve been planning for months to drag into court, Emily Clark’s phone keeps ringing.

13. Why the Struggle to Control Beale Street Continues - Monday, June 1, 2009

Eight blocks lie between the Shelby County Courthouse and Beale Street.

The courthouse’s seated representations of wisdom, justice, liberty and authority look southward toward the entertainment district. Sometimes, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, you can hear the band in Handy Park from the courthouse steps.

14. United Housing’s Walker Sees Foreclosure’s Reach in Community - Friday, May 22, 2009

Homebuyer education manager Sharon Walker has worked for United Housing Inc. for more than a decade. But in all that time, it’s the past few months that particularly have shone a bright light on the importance of her work: educating borrowers on how to grab a piece of the American Dream.

15. 100 South Main Partners Secure Project Financing - Tuesday, December 30, 2008

100 S. Main St.
Memphis, TN 38103
Loan Amount: $9.5 Million

Loan Date: Dec. 23, 2008
Maturity Date: N/A
Borrower: 100 South Main Partners
Lender: SunTrust Bank

16. Housing Bottom Delayed by Supply, Pessimism - Thursday, July 31, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) - More than 800,000 vacant homes for sale stand between the housing recession and the bottom. And that glut is driving down home prices, slowing sales and turning consumer psychology against the market.

17. Consolidation Not On Mind of All Mayors - Monday, January 7, 2008

It will be up to Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton to prove that his latest bid for local government consolidation is different from
past efforts. Those efforts have been scuttled repeatedly on a political to-do list considered dense and complex even by the Byzantine standards of Capitol Hill in Nashville.

18. South Main Area Sees Continued Growth - Tuesday, January 3, 2006

These days, the eyes of Memphis shoppers, developers, tourists, condo hunters and the film industry are all looking south - as in the South Main Arts District, by most accounts one of the most aesthetically and culturally distinct destinations in Memphis.

19. Archived Article: Lead - Monday, March 21, 2005
Turgeon interview

More Condos to Join Downtown Mix

South Front project adds 34 units in growing arts district

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

As Downtown housing growth continues at a strong clip, another project is gearing up to join the ...

20. Archived Article: Tech Focus - Wednesday, February 25, 1998
Thursday February 19, 11:46 am Eastern Time Keno at home? Why not? Internet casinos cause state legislators to look at the legality of gaming on line By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News Now gamblers don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City or ev...