Memphis City Council: Although they voted to stop Health Department funding, it may still happen.

School Lunches: Memphis City schools and Shelby County schools.

POLITICS: What an Obama administration might mean funding-wise for Memphis and Shelby County.

Delta Queen: An effort to save the riverboat, the only one that can carry overnight passenger, now currently dry-docked, by placing it on the list of Endangered Historic Places. More from WMC.

Memphis Crime: How Shelby County businesses are fighting back. Turf wars in Orange Mound.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl: It was a bonanza of sorts for Memphis.

TENNESSEE: State’s budget picture is ‘bleak’. The cost of lost lifetime wages for TN student dropouts has been calculated; similar report from WMC. Report says TVA but business ahead of safety compliance in repairs.

Federal Aviation Administration: A settlement was reached with a Memphis whistle-blower. More from WMC.

Shelby County: How Bartlett was able to meet budget cuts.

Overton Park Antiquarian Book Fair: Held this past weekend.
 

The Big Switch: Funds to reimburse consumers for the converter box purchase before the coming of digital broadcast television, are running low. In a related story, WMC will continue to broadcast on Millington Cable.

BUSINESS: The business year in review, from the Commercial Appeal, as well as a financial year in review. The real estate market is reflected in the shrinking memebership rolls of the Memphis Area Association of Realtors; also, they elected Irvin Skopp of Belz Realty as their new board president. Nationwide manufacturing index falls to 28-year low. The Heckethorn Manufacturing Company is laying off nearly half its workforce.

New York law firm Jackson Lewis is coming to Memphis. Verizon closes their Alltel deal later this week. Auto dealerships facing tough times. Magna Bank trying to find ways to loan out Federal bailout monies. A business profile of 2 Chicks and a Broom.

Former Steak & Ale location on Poplar is sold.
People in Business, from the Commercial Appeal: Saturday and Sunday and Monday.

Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks: The Commercial Appeal reports on his last time at the pulpit he led for fifty years. More from Eyewitness News, WMC, WREG.

Federal Aviation Administration: Agency is holding off on planned, controversial, changes.

Shelby Farms: Despite slower fundraising, planned upgrades and other work will go forward.

Hyperion Brookfield Asset Management: Former Regions Morgan Keegan Mutual funds, now Hyperion, will see one fund liquidated along with other changes.

Shelby County: Decision to close all state law libraries will not affect Shelby County library, thanks to separate funding stream.

MISSISSIPPI: Record blad eagle sightings at Arkabutla Lake.

Mick Wright: How not to start your new year.

Mediaverse: Memphis: Richard has some sharp thoughts on the CA’s series on Mayor Herenton and on local media coverage of the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

Commercial Appeal: An appreciation of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks. Jury duty and downtown parking. Traffic cameras are good thing. Black violence in Memphis, especially against other blacks, must be confronted and stopped.

Life In & Around Memphis: Books read in 2008.

Life as I know it from Memphis: New Year’s resolutions; why do you blog; and a lot of pictures from the Liberty Bowl game. Oh, and what do you think of her purse?

LeftWing Cracker: A short year-end wrap-up.

Notes From Memphis: Eating green and the Memphis Queen.

Artbutcher: Check out his new art studio!

Complacencies of the Peignoir: Continuing with the New Year’s Eve reports and she recounts a chilling airplane flight.

Buck’s Blog: A New Year’s Eve report and some resolutions.

Otis L. Sanford: The ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ flap is all Saltsman’s fault.

Chris L. Peck: A lost wallet leads to a dreamland of panic.

Panacea: The year of ‘irrational excitement’.

Pretty in Pink Megan: Wedding disaster dreams and shoes.

Running With Dice: A start to his Project 365.

Smart City Memphis: Thoughts on the Memphis City Council’s evolving view on City financing of County and other agencies.

Brain Release Valve: He’s been GIF’d. Go take a look.

Bigger Than Your Head: Fifty great wines of 2008.

Kenneth Neill: The Flyer’s publisher thanks their readers.

BEEB: A girl, an ocean and an illness.

Ashley la Rouge: A very particular present is why she loves him so much.

Author of Y’all’s Destruction: Wasteful packaging.

Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease: She’s been keeping a secret that’s great news.

The Daily Docket: Thoughts on Bill Gibbons and his run for governor.

what would you ax it: Someone else is doing Project 265!