School Menus: Memphis City schools here and Shelby County schools here.

Shelby County Clerk’s Office: One employee suspended, another suddenly retires and a third is fired as the criminal probe into gifts and tips continues. More from Eyewitness News, WMC.

Beale Street: The Daily News’ Bill Dries provides some background on the fight for management of Beale Street.

TENNESSEE: For the thrid straight year, the Titans are raising ticket prices. CoverTN has raised income caps and removed limits in diabetes treatments. A proposal to lift the tuition cap at state schools has been shelved. The state’s unemployment rate hit 7.9% in December; more from Eyewitness News. Several West TN counties (and NE Arkansas) are still without power; including Dyer, Lake and Obion. Ecnomic slowdown, and slowdown in the construction industry particularly, are driving Latinos away.

University of Memphis: Railroad work along Patterson will close it off and on today from 9 AM until 3 PM.

Memphis Motorsports Park: It was sold for $10 million last week, to Alabama-based Gulf Coast Entertainment. More from the Business Journal.

POLITICS: Democratic State Rep. Lincoln Davis has announced he won’t run for governor in 2010. The Flyer’s Jackson Baker has more on that, and other political doin’s. TN Secretary of State Tre Hargett is interviewing replacements for Elections Coordinator Brook Thompson. John Branston talks about grand juries — how they work and what they do. Rep. Brian Kelsey says the fallout from his text message is a diversion; WREG has an exclusive interview with Kelsey.

MATA: They are partnering with Google Maps to create a trip planner utilising the Memphis bus system. More from Fox13.

Survey Says: According to ComScore, online sales grew at the slowest rate since they began tracking in 2001.

Memphis International Airport: Free handicapped parking has been stopped there, as a result of employee abuse.

Community Health Partnership: They will be distributing the Community Health Resource Guide, aimed at local African Americans in order to connect them to the health care system.

Mortgage Relief Efforts Task Force: A report on efforts by the ad hoc group to control mortgage meltdown damage and the likelihood of a lawsuit against the institutions that made the high-risk loans.

DeSoto County: Hernando will grow by two wards in the next election. Olive Branch utility projects remain on schedule. Also in that city, Career Transitions Ministry is growing as more people need help networking for jobs. And, the Great Commission Church is running into opposition from a neighborhood that doesn’t want a church office built. The county’s Health & Wellness Center will have a gala re-opening on March 14th.

Memphis State 8: Tonight, the University of Memphis Black Student Association will honor the ground-breakers with a special award presentation.

ARKANSAS: Legislators are considering new gun laws and regulations, including church carry. 130,000 still without power in AR.

BUSINESS: The eight county Memphis metro area has an estimated 47,000 jobless. Large screen television sales are off, but for a variety of unrelated reasons. It’s official: Starbucks is closing nine more Memphis stores.

The commercial real estate market is expected to do poorly as the year progresses. But chartered financial analysts see an overall better picture. Several large companies and banks hit 52-week lows last week. YRC Worldwide reported nearly $1 billion in losses for 2008 and was down 7% over 2007.

Cadence Financial reported both 4Q and FY2008 losses. The return of the barter economy?

A business profile, from the Daily News, of Patricia Haddad’s PSH Cleaning Service. And from the Commercial Appeal, a profile of Magna Bank.

People in Business, from the CA, for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

MISSISSIPPI: State House Democrats agree with governor on sale of governor’s airplane. Sales of specialty license plates are suspended until the office has more money. Opposition to “extreme” budget measures coming from all along the political spectrum. And state’s judges and DA’s looking for a pay boost!

A day early, on a Sunday, is Mississippi Outdoors.

The Regional Medical Center: Federal legislation has two provisions tucked inside that may benefit the Med. A tobacco tax is raised and a provision would make it easier for AR and MS State governments to transfer funds to the Med, if they choose to. More from the Daily News.

Methodist Hospital’s Congregational Health Network: Outreach ministry seen in action.

Fayette County: County school system, which has already spent the budget for substitute teachers for the year, approves the use of using teacher planning time to cover the gaps. The Sheriff’s Department has started a program to allow victims of crimes to track the custody status of offenders.

Lakeland: Six proposed new subdivision types are sparking tension between big-lot, estate home owners and small-lot, center-city types.

County Communities: It costs Collierville extra to go green with recycling. City of Collierville has their list of Federal stimulus money projects already drawn up.

The Commercial Appeal: The iDiva, Leanne Kleinmann, is stepping down from her position as editor at the paper and at CA magazine Skirt for a job at St. Mary’s Episcopal School. Her blog will still continue. More from the Flyer and Mediaverse: Memphis.

Tax Season:: The IRS thinks more taxpayers this season may qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. The Shelby County Assessor’s Office will be sending out appraisal notices soon, and turmoil is expected.

Commontaries: Signs the Obama honeymoon is already over.

Complacencies of the Peignoir: Hiring waitresses based on bra size doesn’t work for all customers; and some Snow Day pictures.

Jen-sized: The irritations of (Internet) spam; and thoughts on the mother of the octuplets (and six more).

Loudersoft: He’s giving away two free tickets to the Langerado Music Festivial in March in Miami!

Notes From Memphis: Some photos from a sunny Sunday morning.

quite swimmingly: A lost dog story with a happy ending.

Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease: A week later and the death of her cat is still hard to grasp.

Robert L. Barber: The I-269 project is going to call for a new, multi-state, multi-jurisdictional approach for Memphis.

Commercial Appeal: Self-reporting and self-testing is the best solution? Chastising the TN House’s leadership for its behavior. Lots of questions on police residency requirement, and more, and a plea for action. Slowing down on increasing automobile regulations. Chastising Bartlett for using red-light cameras as a revenue booster.

Otis L. Sanford: Why can’t Memphis have the same kind of team devotion that the Pittsburgh Steelers have?

Mediaverse: Memphis: Richard begs to disagree with Otis.

Chris Peck: The arts, in tough times, is cheap therapy.

Jerome Wright: The CA’s citizens editor takes a police-friendly look at perceptions of racial and gender bias in police recruitment and hiring.

Russell Wigginton: Grass-roots dialogue is the path to a post-racial socieity.

Wendi C. Thomas: She takes exception with an expert on Muslim-American affairs.

Anthony Ziracusa: Arguing that the Obama stimulus package include money for bike path, especially for cities like Memphis.