— Mid-South area public schools are closed again today, making nine consecutive days that icy conditions have hampered transportation.
— The Shelby County Commission will appoint a replacement for commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., who resigned following Monday’s guilty plea on federal tax evasion charges.
— The Memphis City Council advanced two ordinances, one to rename a block of Monroe Avenue as Hyde Square and the other a still-vague rewriting of the city’s impasse procedures.
— The City of Memphis has agreed to release more than $8 million toward local pre-kindergarten, likely alleviating a funding crunch that was set to put some First 8 Memphis providers out of business.
— FedEx founder Fred Smith’s family recently asked about acquiring a majority interest in the Memphis Grizzlies from the team’s owner Robert Pera.
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