TVA: They have raised the fuel adjustment charge, translating to an average $3 to 6.50 per month more per household.

Millington: Jean Landsee of the Millington Medical Clinic has been charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Memphis Police Department: Police Director Larry Godwin talks about gun confiscations and resale. Even though investigators examined the room as part of a homicide investigation, no one noticed the body of Sony Millbrook under the bed? More from Fox13, WMC, WREG and the CA.

Alex Chilton: The Memphis music legend (The Box Tops and Big Star died yesterday in New Orleans at 59. More from WMC, the Commercial Appeal, the Flyer.

Real Estate: Mortgage bankers are watching for the end of the Federal homebuyers’ tax credit.

DeSoto County: Residents in Hernando are balking at paying for garbage disposal services they don’t use. Folks in the Lewisburg area are happy that Olive Branch won’t try to annex them soon. Horn Lake will fund sewer and water upgrades for two subdivisions.

Delta Air Lines: They are having a sale, some one-way flights are just $99.

Consolidation: The Flyer interviews Rebuild Government cofounder Darrell Cobbins. The Election Commission has approved revised language in a voter referendum that would prevent cities from annexing areas that don’t want to be annexed.

Mid-South Food Bank: They are reminding people that donations made in March and April will receive matching donations from the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation. Food Bank website here.

Business: Asentinel has opened another European office, this in Amsterdam. YRC Worldwide’s freight volume rose 10% in March. Shelton Clothiers is opening a women’s boutique Downtown. Meridian Bioscience has lowered its earnings guidance.

Seventeen Ike’s and Super D drugstores in Memphis, owned by USA Drug will close; two will re-open as Walgreen’s.

What to Do and People in Business, from the CA.

Collierville: The Independent profiles new town assistant administrator, Mark Brown.

Mississippi: Tupelo Regional Airport will be back to three flights a day by June. A bill to raise the standards for the State’s medical examiner is on the governor’s desk. The state slipped to fourth place as a gaming destination. A State panel has set next year’s revenue forecast at $4.45 billion; total shortfall this year is nearly one-half billion.

Millington: Stadium USA will host a June American Legion Fair, similar to the Mid-South and Delta Fairs, sponsored by the American Legion.

Survey Says: Total employment in Memphis has shrunk by 4.5% in the past two years, says a Brookings Institution report.

West Tennessee: A rezoning request for apartments gets neighbors to attend a Newbern Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. This story on the 2010 Census comes with a neat graphic of the population of Dyer County and its three largest communities, from 1830 to 2000. (stories via the Dyersburg State Gazette)

NEW! Main Street Journal: Mick Wright looks at the two major factions of the tea party movement in Shelby County.

Memphis v. Nashville: The Davidson County Clerk’s office can now process online and paperlessly — with updates — most of your transactions. Consultants are proposing drastic changes to the Davidson County hospital system.

Shelby County Trustee: A computer glitch that caused errors in an unreported number of property tax bills is still unfixed for dozens of others.

Memphis City Schools: Administrators are back in Nashville, lobbying for a separate police force.

University of Memphis: Two important resolutions will be on the ballot when Student Government Association voting begins on March 30.

Arkansas: In its first budget year, the State Lottery expect to have $116 million to award in scholarships.

Politics: OK, now it’s confirmed that Vice-President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker for the TN Democratic Party’s Jackson Day dinner. The TNDP’s chairman, Chip Forrester, predicts “nuclear winter” if Democrats lose big this Fall.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp fights for states’ rights. The Flyer’s Jackson Baker interviews Republican Ron Ramsey. Shelby County’s Bill Gibbons is reminding the home folks he’s counting on their support.

The State Senate approved a bill to allow pet fish and birds in the state’s barbershops. They will also take up the debate on an explicit ban of a State income tax; more in the Tennessean. The bill to allow businesses to set “English-only” rules in their workplaces passed the House. The House also approved a bill to create a public “high risk” juvenile sex offender registry. Two bills in the House to require LLCs to disclose ownership when signing government contracts were killed; more in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. More on the “gun carry in restaurants” bill, which passed a House committee and the bill which removes some power from the state’s political parties regarding primaries.

US Congressman Jim Cooper’s vote is still uncertain as the health care bill nears a vote or a “deem”. Congressman Steve Cohen has filed a bill to prevent companies using credit checks in pre-employement screening. Cohen also wants to direct FEMA money to protect hospitals and airports from earthquake damage.

An Attorney General’s ruling that deputy sheriffs cannot campaign while employeed as deputies leaves a lot of broad grey areas. Ruling here. (PDF document)

Eighth Congressional District: Democratic candidate Roy Herron wants Tennesseans he’ll always oppose a State income tax. Republican Steve Fincher told an audience in Jackson that they could “bring a rope and … hang me” if he didn’t keep his campaign promises!

National Association of Home Builders: Their senior economist, Elliot Eisenberg, will speak in Memphis this Friday.

Methodist Healthcare North Hospital: They are holding an open house in their transformed emergency room today.

Tennessee: The State’s medical examiner, Dr Bruce Levy, has been fired by the Department of Health following a felony drug bust in MS; background here and in the Nashville City Paper; Fox13.

Fairgrounds: The Daily News has an update on communications about work being done demolishing the old Fairgrounds.

Previously Posted: More on Morgan Keegan’s restructuring a new investment division; still more from the Daily News.

The Tale of a Southern Belle: Wisdome teeth, oral surgery and auto repair, with a side of Sonic coney fun.

Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease: Tales from a Memphis college classroom.

Speak to Power: Thoughts on the per diem payments to legislators, from someone with some experience with receiving them.

MemphisShelbyInform: Thoughts on controlling the MCS budget.

Ramblings of the Mad Cow: An Irish blessing for you.

Scribblescrawl: Tales from the front lines of telemarketing.

sharp stick in the eye: She likes the green.

Smart City Memphis: With or without consolidation, change is gonna come.

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Blasting Republican gubernatorial candidates Ron Ramsey (also Lt. Governor) and Zach Wamp for not opposing mountain-removal mining.

Commercial Appeal: Enhanced fines for enhanced crimes. Universal health care is inevitable, so cut the foot-dragging.

Peter Orszag and Nancy-Ann DeParle: White House advocates for healt care reform claim it’s fiscally responsible. (via the Commercial Appeal)

Wendi C. Thomas: She’s excited about the census and holds your hand to get you to participate. (via the Commercial Appeal)

Because I Said So: Comparing his family to a flock of birds. (via the Commercial Appeal)

Just A Girl in the World: Just turned 25 and already amused by the old folks. And achieving a life goal: keg standing.

Left Wing Cracker: Harold Ford Jr, uh … encounters at close range … Iggy Pop.

Jesus Is Hot: A brief discussion of gender roles in re-interpreted iconic images. (NSFW photo.)

I’ll be the one in heels: She becomes the parent she swore she’d never be! And no more energy for outrage.

I Love Memphis: Kerry’s in Texas for SXSW, so naturally she tried the stuff they call BBQ. A preview of the Memphis bands playing there.

Egotistical Whining: Two pithy sentences that well sum up the MCS school police force debate.

Andrew Earles: He’s launching his own record label with stuff from his vaults of weirdness.

Blue Collar Republican: Things you should know about the 2010 Census.

Cwabs! More fun in Memphis classrooms.

Divers and Sundry: The Tea Party. The Coffee Party. The Cocktail Party. And now, the the Orange Juice Party!

Downtown Memphis Blog: If you name after the city can’t you at least film it here?

theology & geometry: The little adventures that make up a day. Fun with raccoons and Hans the chipmunk.

The Suggs: Hadley has conquered reach, but her grasp isn’t quite there yet.