UPDATE - New Orleans: After Gustav, mayor says to wait a while before returning. More from WREG and WMC.

NEW - Bart Sullivan: A report from this morning’s Tennessee delegation breakfast meeting.

Memphis Flyer: Chris Davis interviews Scott Ritter.

Comcast: Residential users will have internet usage capped, beginning October 1st. Background on this action here. More from the Daily News.

Davis Development, Inc.: This development’s a keeper says developer.

Perkins: Tough times impacting revenues/losses.

Barboro Alley Flats: It’s a go.

POLITICS: Yet more on Joseph Lee and his legal fee woes. FredPAC: Thompson launches conservative PAC. Open records request fee hearing. Gatewood hearing on ballot listing. City Council Super-District 9 race: and then there were four. The Faith and Labor Picnic serves up union politics.

Winstead Farms: Waiting for Memphis to arrive.

Shelby Sun Times: Faith-Filled Outreach Ministries (FFOM) hosted a Community Baby Shower.

Shelby County Schools: David Pickler receives NSBA honor. (Germantown News)

Janice Holder: Sworn in today as state’s first female Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Poverty: City of Memphis dramatically leads region in poverty rates. (US Census Bureau report. PDF document.)

Neely’s BBQ: Corporate HQ will be in Midtown.

NEW - Live@9: Live from the Gulf Coast and a surprising report on pilerage at the Peabody. (Video report; scroll to the September 2 entry.)

NEW - MIFA: Local agency will serve as Gustav donations collection point.

Tennessee at the RNC: Jackson Baker on the muddled first day. Bart Sullivan on the Shelby County delegates & and MS Gov. Haley Barbour; a second report.

Whole Foods Market: Big changes underway at organic grocer.
 
 

Exhibitions: A quick overview of four art shows.

St. Paul Douglass Church: “A small church doing big things.”

Gustav Fades: Fox13: Evacuation smoother this time. Red Cross needs volunteers! Where to call for help & a list of shelters. And more shelters continue to open.

My Eyewitness News: Where to find ice, food & water. More shelters. Evacuee advice on avoiding Memphis crime. Veterinarians on the job, too. Gustav miss reassures oil market — prices down.

WMC: Shelter concerns. Crime strikes evacuees and again. Katrina refugees back in Memphis. The circus is back at the Forum.

WREG: Churches step up, too. Gouging? More on Red Cross support. At least seven Gustav-related deaths in MS. (MyNews story.)

Commercial Appeal: Ready to go home. The oil price slide. How the Memphis medical community is meeting the need. DeSoto County makes room. So do churches.

Dorothy Withers: Widow of photographer Ernest Withers passes.

Commercial Appeal: Beating the Lee horse some more.

Blake Fontenay: Musings on Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

Vibinc: Democratic thoughts on the choice of Sarah Palin.

Fore Left!: Comparing questions of the left and right in politics.

Running With Dice: Thoughts on game player ethics.

Smart City Memphis: Studying the concensus results of the Fund Shelby Schools project.

The Daily Docket: The Lowell Fulson meditation.

Mediaverse-Memphis: Surveying the reporters and reporting on Hurricane Gustav.

Radio Sweethearts: T-shirt kerfuffle.

Bookish and Somewhat Slightly Distracted: Serious book love.

Paul Ryburn’s Journal:
The Memphis Music & Heritage Fest keeps getting better every year, he says.