The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) articles

Recent articles from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Shelby County Unified School Board Debates Who Started Buyout Discussions with Kriner Cash
June 12, 2012... Byline: Jane Roberts June 12--Supt. Kriner Cash is still the head of Memphis City Schools after a board meeting Monday that lurched along in fits of pique and anger and eventually recessed to a private talk with the board's attorneys. When the board meets next in mid-June, it will...

Memphis Grizzlies Owner Michael Heisley Confirms Agreement to Sell Team
June 12, 2012... Byline: Ronald Tillery June 12--Michael Heisley believes he's achieved his goal of finding a new owner who will keep the Grizzlies in Memphis for the long term. Heisley, the team's 75-year-old Chicago-based owner of the past 12 years, agreed Monday to sell the NBA franchise to...

The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., Geoff Calkins Column
June 12, 2012... Byline: Geoff Calkins June 12--Extend the lease. That's all Robert Pera would have to do to reassure nervous Memphians. Extend the lease that binds the team to FedExForum. Right now, the lease says the team can't move until 2021. Make it 2031 and the citizenry would throw a parade for...

FDA Review Process Is More Responsive to Device Makers, Official Says
June 12, 2012... Byline: Toby Sells June 12--Getting a medical device through the U.S. Food & Drug Administration review and on the U.S. market is a famously tough process. The science is complex. Independent reviewers have to agree that the device works and, more important, is safe for patients. Not...

Friends, Fellow Catholic Clergy Celebrate Life of 'Father John'
June 12, 2012... Byline: David Waters / June 12--Rev. John Atkinson, who died last week with no living relatives, will be buried in the Illinois town where he was born 75 years ago. But as dozens of the priest's friends, former parishioners and fellow priests made clear at his funeral here Monday, he...