The As, Bs & Cs of Phil Bredesen Seven years old when his father left home, Phil Bredesen moved with his mother and younger brother into his grandmother’s house in rural Shortsville, N.Y. Under that same roof lived Bredesen’s “Uncle Ozzie,” a milkman turned accountant for a local Chevy dealership. “He was as close as I had to a surrogate father,” Bredesen says during a recent interview conducted on his campaign bus as it traveled between political rallies in Sumner and Rutherford counties, two… More...
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Conspicuous Absence Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic demographic and largest minority group in the United States. But, despite the fact that state and federal government recognizes Hispanics as a minority, the City of Memphis doesn’t see it that way. The municipality’s minority and women business enterprise (MWBE) procurement program keeps
Blue Suede Shoes, Anyone? Paul McCartney once remarked that if not for Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles. Known as the father of rockabilly music—the genre commonly credited with giving birth to rock-and-roll—Perkins influenced artists such as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Eric Clapton, to name a few. His
Here an Oink, Oink... Bacon is back in Tennessee, sort of. Since 1970, Tennessee’s pig population has decreased by 86.4% compared to a 9% decrease nationally, yet this month the
Kenco’s Crossroads Last year, Jim Kennedy III found his family-owned logistics business at a crossroads: The middle tier of third-party logistics providers it had for years successfully occupied, somewhere between “mom-and-pop” warehouses and industry giants like UPS, was .....
The Soybean Crush East Tennessee soybean farmers are about to get crushed. And that’s a good thing. Brent Best, chief operations officer with the Blount Greenback Farmers Co-op in Maryville, wants Blount County to be the first to bring soybean crushing back to Tennessee. Best hopes to open a plant in ...
Bones About It The Gray Fossil Site, one of the largest deposits of fossilized plants and animals on earth, could have Washington County seeing lots of green for decades to come. The site spans ...
Bank Shots Banking is big business in Tennessee. Business Tennessee recently brought together some of the top minds in the field, including leaders of some of the state’s top financial institutions, to discuss banking issues facing the .....
The Caduceus & the Scale Business Tennessee recently spoke with Charles R. Handorf, M.D., President of the Tennessee Medical Association. Handorf is a Memphis pathologist who is affiliated with Duckworth Pathology Group and is the chairman of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UT College of Health Sciences—Memphis.
By Hook and by Foot Renting office space. It’s a necessary step for any small business owner with plans for growth and success. You look at a couple places, get a few rental rate quotes, and pick the one with the lowest rent. Easy, right? Wrong. Though rental rates are obviously an important factor when it comes to renting office space, it’s only one of the myriad things that small business owners ....
Making a Splash Waterfront, upscale living is taking Tennessee by storm. With a new crop of these communities emerging wherever there is water and unspoiled land, people from all over the country are considering Tennessee’s lakefront communities to buy second homes. So, too, are retirees, who are ...
Second Tier Rising... “A strong economy creates a fruitful meetings industry climate,” says Walt Baker, CEO of the Tennessee Hotel and Lodging Association. And at the five year anniversary of 9/11, the economy is regaining strength, the hotel and convention business is steady, and the buyer’s market that ensued after the attacks is turning around.
