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Tom Lee Park's changes won't cut Memphis in May fun

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Published April 27, 2009 at 12:41 p.m.

Your shoes might get muddy, but you won't have to walk so much at this year's Beale Street Music Festival and World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Tom Lee Park. "Construction by the RDC (Riverfront Development Corporation) for the Beale Street Landing Project has caused us to re-configure the park," said Diane Hampton, executive vice president of the Memphis in May International Festival, which holds the events. "With the new layout, the three outdoor stages are closer together. It's

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From My Seat: Of Moments and Memories

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Published April 27, 2009 at 11:14 a.m.

Sports fans across the country -- particularly baseball fans -- were struck with heavy hearts by the recent passing of Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych (both men died on April 13th). Neither man was an active athlete, a player in the arena. Neither had won or lost a game in more than a quarter century. But the grief since their death has been substantial, in some respects outweighing the impact Kalas (a broadcaster) or Fidrych (a pitcher washed up before his 30th birthday) had on a playing field. As

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DeSoto Central High pair amass success in first year as economics students

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Published April 27, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.

Since the Merrill Lynch Promising Young Entrepreneur Award was established by the Mississippi Council on Economic Education in 2006, three high school students have annually been recognized for their accomplishments in entrepreneurship. When the 2009 honors were recently dished out, DeSoto Central High School in Southaven captured not one, but two of the awards ...

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Inmates Go Green with 'Sow to Grow'

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Published April 25, 2009 at 8:31 a.m.

Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton is joining inmates from theShelby County Division of Corrections and over 100 volunteersSaturday to plant community gardens in Frayser and South Memphis,kicking off his green initiative 'Sow to Grow.' ...

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Herenton Asks Council to Fund Schools

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Published April 24, 2009 at 6:22 p.m.

Mayor Willie Herenton wants the Memphis City Council to give Memphis City Schools the amount of funding it asked for last year ... The mayor made the request Friday in a letter delivered to council members asking that they not "play games" with the budget he presented Tuesday ... The text of the letter follows ... "At the risk of appearing to be defensive or offensive, I want to make it very clear that the Administration has developed a sound budget and we are not going to play games over

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Herenton vs. Cohen : A Primer for Tourists

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Published April 24, 2009 at 2:19 p.m.

abridged and somewhat different version of this article appeared this week as a background piece in the Nashville-based insiders’ newsletter Tennessee Journal.) ... [image-1]MEMPHIS, a city which has grown accustomed to political shock-waves, received yet another on Tuesday when, immediately after delivering a rosy prospectus to his city council regarding a proposed budget which he said would entail no tax increases and no new cuts in services or personnel, fifth-term mayor Willie Herenton

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All Oldies All The Time

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Published April 24, 2009 at 12:13 p.m.

Where are the young? ... A lot can be said about a theoretical political match-up of Steve Cohen and Willie Herenton, but three days after the mayor's surprise announcement, what's striking about Cohen-Herenton is not how different they are but how much alike they are ... The differences are as obvious as black and white and tall and short ... But the similarities stand out, too ... When the 2010 congressional election rolls around, both will be over 60. Both have been eligible for AARP

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LEED adding 'bonus points' by region

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Published April 24, 2009 at 10:52 a.m.

The U.S. Green Building Council has developed a new set of LEED regional credits as part of the latest version of the LEED Green Building Rating System ...

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Pastner Addresses Boosters

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Published April 23, 2009 at 5:04 p.m.

University of Memphis basketball coach Josh Pastner says fans should be prepared for the team to possibly "take a step back" before he gets the program back on solid footing ... In a letter to members of the Rebounders boosters club, Pastner, who replaced John Calipari as coach, vows to "do things the right way, and that begins by building a strong foundation from the grassroots up." ... The text of the letter:"First off, I wanted to thank all of you for your tremendous support for not only

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Promises, Promises

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Published April 22, 2009 at 10:01 a.m.

I promised myself I wouldn't write an angry post about yesterday's 6-4 loss to the Cardinals. I promised myself that I wouldn't comment on how the only thing you can consistently expect from the 2009 Mets so far is ...

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