A new modular program, “Spotlight on Lifelong Learning” begins today on WKNO-FM.

Just ahead of his inauguration as Tennessee's Governor, Bill Lee has been talking to the Memphis press about his future plans and policies. His campaign promises that were widely praised included more vocational and technical programs in schools and bringing economic growth to Memphis and Shelby County.

James Rada, a professor and documentary filmmaker from Ithaca College in New York, may live far away from the Southern cities where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the civil rights movement. But when the 50th Anniversary of King's death was commemorated last year, he brought a dozen journalism students to Memphis to help cover the event for WKNO-FM.

In 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

Janet Addison is peering into a large, blue recycling bin on the University of Memphis campus. She does not like what she sees.

“Okay, right now, everything that’s in here is contaminated,” says Addison, who’s been working as a recycling operator for the university for almost two years.

By contaminated she means that along with recyclable items —bottles, papers, cans —there’s also plenty of gunk.

January is National Slow Cooker Month!

On Tuesday, the Memphis City Council finally broke a deadlock that had lasted seven weeks and resulted in a leadership crisis. The problem: members couldn't decide on three appointments for vacant district seats. After the election of a new chairman, Kemp Conrad, the council made relatively fast work finding consensus candidates.

Political analyst Otis Sanford offers his take on this week's events, along with his predictions for local lawmakers as they headed to Nashville for the first few days of this year's Tennessee General Assembly.

With more than 170 acres of rolling hills bordered by stately trees, the Germantown Country Club has been an exclusive oasis for golfers for decades. But with a declining membership and in financial straits, the club is scheduled to close next month. 

If I told you there was a vaccine to prevent cancer, would you get it?