Shelby County & Memphis Schools: The Shelby County Commission committee has approved a plan to shift City Schools funding to the County. Full Commission vote next week.

Business: Medtronic has been subpoena’d by the Massachussetts Attorney General over an Infuse bone transplant study. The CEO of Nucor sees years of slowdown in the steel industry. Rite-Aid was able to narrow their fiscal Q1 loss below expectations.

A business profile of Diversified Conveyors, from the CA.

People in Business, from the CA.

Memphis Police Department: They are restarting the Hispanic Action Response Team to improve policing with the city’s Hispanic community. More from Eyewitness News and the Commercial Appeal. The police will also soon begin using GPS trackers for certain criminals out on bail.

Local Media: The Commercial Appeal has rolled out a new subsection of the online version. Its … very self-promotional yet light on numbers. KWAM, AM 990, is launching a new radio program, Variety Hour, with a rotating cast of hosts.

St Jude Children’s Research Hospital: A study by researchers there shows leukemia treatment for kids may not require brain radiation.

Bartlett: Doctor John R. Wiseman has had his license suspended, over sexual misconduct.

Memphis Legal Placement: This service of the Memphis Bar Association has launched a new career website for unemployed or laid off attorneys.

Mississippi: Sniping, arguing, threats and brinksmanship, but still no State budget.

HEAT: The city has recorded its first heat-related death of the Summer. More from WMC, Eyewitness News, WREG and the Commercial Appeal.

DeSoto County: An enormous planned development near Lake Cormorant, called Dunbar Hills, goes before the Planning Commission next month. What makes it special is Ryan’s Ranch, for handicapped children and families. More on Olive Branch’s budget battle over July 4th fireworks. The Site Selection Committee of the County Board of Supervisors has turned in a list of potential new jail sites for the County. The Board also agreed to issue $16 million in bonds, some of which will pay for the new jail. The DeSoto County Animal Shelter will be featured in an upcoming Animal Planet network show.

National Civil Rights Museum: The Secretary of the Labor Department held a national news conference there, about ARRA money for “green” jobs. Here’s a report on the press conference. And the Associated Press story from WMC. More in the CA.

St Francis Hospital - Memphis: They received Gold and Silver Awards from the American Heart Association.

Real Estate: The value of distressed commercial real estate is over $97 billion. The Mortgage Bankers Association reports a sharp rise in loan applications last week.

Bennigan’s: Is the Memphis-area franchised restaurant going through a sale or name change?

Mayor Willie Herenton: More on the resignation rumors now swirling around him. But, if he wants to be out there every day, where was he in the aftermath of the June weekend storms?

City Councilwoman Wanda Halbert: A police investigation has cleared her of any undue use of office in her son’s drug misdemeanor. The Commercial Appeal has more.

Center City Commission: A new grant program offers up to $60,000 to businesses as rent subsidies or tenant improvements. The Commission itself may get smaller again, as City and County representatives may get cut.

Baptist Women’s Health Center: A new electronic tracking board is dramatically reducing patient wait and visit times.

MSARC: Continuing reporting on the difficult trial of the 14-year-old whose alleged rape brought the MSARC’s problems to the public.

Politics: US Rep. Jim Cooper is also signing on to Rep. John Tanner’s plan to de-politicise the redistricting process; the CA has more. did Secretary of State Tre Hargett deliberately sic the TBI on a citizen-blogger just to scare them?

Harold Ford Sr’s Washington fundraiser for US Rep. Steve Cohen attracted a couple of dozen people and raised Cohen’s war-chest for the 2010 campaign to more than a half-million dollars.

Many newly passed bills got Governor Phil Bredesen’s signature: A law allowing military personnel on assigned duty to designate their family visitation person. A law that lets people under an order of protection to assign who holds their weapons. A law that changes water law to allow people and businesses to hire professionals to define watercourses. A law allowing the collection of alcoholic beverage bottles by collectors.

Poplar Rail Line: Paul Morris, a planner with the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Poplar/Southern Corridor Study, is seeking public input into proposed traffic bridges.

Snakes! Can Burmese pythons, now spreading north from Florida, survive in TN? Scientists are trying to find out.

Small Business Administration: They are changing their 504 loan program with beneficial refinanacing terms, for those qualified.

Shelby County Emergency Management Agency: They have received a $3.7 million grant for four main components of homeland security.

Germantown: More on the City’s Board of Aldermen considering next month banning gun carry in parks.

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz: A short interview with J. Carter Thompson, about his taking over the firm’s Product Liability and Mass Tort Group.

Lakeland: A group of California investors has bought a small outparcel of a property developed by a Rusty Hynemann company.

Stanford Financial Group: The court-appointed receiver in the case, who is asking for $20 million in fees, is accused of “heavy-handed tactics”.

Arkansas: Governor Mike Beebe says voters didn’t approve keno as one of the new State-funded lottery games. Former Congressman Asa Hutchinson is calling for a State investigation of the prison system.

National Guard: A unit from Memphis, the 194th Engineer Brigade, deployed to Iraq yesterday. More from the Commercial Appeal.

Survey Says: The number of people 65 and older in America is expected to more than double by 2050. Durable goods orders have risen for the second straight month, and by a rate not seen in five years! New home sales, however, slowed.

Vegan Crunk: A photo-report from a Summer solstice party — with raw food.

Gilmour Girl Goes Memphis: On missing motivation.

Wendi C. Thomas: She talks about HIV/AIDS education, and getting tested.

55-40 Memphis: A genuinely pithy observation about Memphis government. Reporter’s privilege.

The Ominous Comma: He’s got a new project coming: “What Brent Says”.

The Chockley Blogs: Connor is six and Mom is proud.

That’s My B: For him, the only upside of John Edwards was meeting Dabney.

RSVP’s What’s Going On: The Center for Missing and Exploited Children is having a kids disco dance fundraiser this Saturday.

Rustmeister’s Alehouse: He will soon face every man’s secret fear.

Smart City Memphis: Praise for the new Shelby County Election Commission and a request of the rest of local government.

Thaddeus Matthews: He says the flap about Mayor Wharton’s tags is just a lot of nothing.

Doug Johnson: The team trivia kerfuffle roils on, as does the heat.

Commercial Appeal: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour should compromise with the Legislature, to get a budget passed. They agree with Carol Chumney’s call for an investigation of Mayor A C Wharton’s tag issuance.

Paul Ryburn’s Journal: A hot sauce idea and the usual downtown news.

Persian Pit Bull: Ooooh … crashing a house party.

joelarkins: A catch-up post on television news, digital signals and nieces.

Lean Left: Did he just coin a new euphemism?

LeftWing Cracker: Some random observations on various Democratic things and a nice world for a Republican!

MAKE IT HAPPEN: An interesting Wednesday to-do list.

MemphisConnect: Introducing you to EcoMemphis; also, a shout-out to the upcoming Kroc Center.

Mick Wright: He’s about to move, but what about all his old stuff?