Stanford St. Jude Championship: A date has been set for the 2009 event.

Trees for Troops: Hoping to send 16,000 live Christmas trees to 45 military bases with FedEx’s help. More from the Commercial Appeal.

BUSINESS: A common stock offering is planned by CB Richard Ellis; more from the Daily News. Harold’s goes into liquidation after declaring bankruptcy last week. More retail businesses are turning to layaway these days. Starbucks has crushing 4Q profit drop.

People in business for Wednesday, from the CA.

Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare: Will delay the opening of a Mississippi facility.

MLG&W: Tips from Eyewitness News on saving money on utility bills.

Freebies & Discounts: Some websites that offer free stuff, via WMC. Also, Fox13’s Bargain Thursday, from Good Morning Memphis. And don’t forget thrift stores.

Downtown: Police are even using an obscure ‘profanity code’ in the battle with vagrants downtown.

Porter Leath Children’s Home: Kicking off the Toy Truck drive.

ARKANSAS: Three suspect fires in 24 hours in Crittenden County.

Memphis Area Teachers Credit Union: New branch in Frayser, which is called ‘unbanked’.

Doosan: Korean medical machinists open up workshop for Memphis prosthetics industry.

COGIC Convocation: Presiding Bishop Charles Blake elected to post he was previously appointed to as convocation winds down.

Memphis Police Department: From Fox13, a look at some of the city’s worst repeat offenders. And a related story on tracking those offenders. The Memphis Police Union is awaiting the results of a forensic audit.

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals: Chairman of the board to speak at a roundtable later this month.

Medicare: Recipients being urged to shop around and ask question on new prescription drug benefits.

Memphis City Schools: More on Superintendent Cash’s first one hundred days in office. More from WMC. Also, a report on a forum where he appeared at Snowden Elementary.

Getting parents involved to hold down dropout rates.

Renasant Bank: Names new Memphis vice-president.

Exchange Family Center: Will be holding its annual community garage sale fundraiser this Saturday.

ArtsMemphis: Names 38 organisations to receive $75,000 in grants.

Ashley la Rouge: “When writing was an easy pleasure.”

The Chubby Vegetarian: An orange pushup pop for adults!

LeftWing Cracker: Musings on the 2011 mayoral race.

Paul Ryburn: Your downtown update.

Midtown Stomp: A two-fer! Inspired to try more vegetarian meals, and then Obama and champagne.

A View From the Middle: Markus’ weekend update. BTW, he’s involved in two podcasts worth checking out.

Student: Revisited: Buttercup.

BEEB: She’s using her words now, and fun words they are.

Commercial Appeal: Take high blood pressure seriously. They also approve regulations to make older apartments energy efficient at owner expense.

Sassy Molassy: What Hillary Clinton might be thinking right about now.

Mediaverse: Memphis: Richard compliments WMC’s Jason Miles and hopes to see more like it.

BBQ the Pandas: Is eating at McDonald’s cheaper than the alternative?