April 5-11, 2013, Vol. 6, Issue 15 10 Logistics 15 Health Care FedEx founder Christ and CEO Community Fred Smith » was named by Health Services Barron’s as one is expanding of the ‘World's with a new Best CEOs.’ 4,000-square- foot women’s clinic at Poplar CARDINALS WEIGH BUYING REDBIRDS: The St. Louis Cardinals are showing renewed interest in purchasing the Memphis and Hollywood SheLBY • FAYette • Tipton • Madison Redbirds, but a deal might hinge on “civic involvement” by the city. Page 28 in Midtown. Coping with Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 45 years later thennow &Page 18 Photo: Paul Schutzer, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images 16 Sports Mike Conley has been stealing the show for the Grizzlies this season. The team’s all-time steals leader has greatly improved his shot and playmaking abilities. WEEKLY DIGEST: PAGE 2 GOVERNMENT: PAGE 6 laW talK: PAGE 24 SMALL BUSINESS: PAGE 26 EDITORIAL: PAGE 34 A Publication of The Daily News Publishing Co. | www.thememphisnews.com 2 April 5-11, 2013 www.thememphisnews.com weekly digest Get news daily from The Daily News, www.memphisdailynews.com. THE MEMPHIS NEWS | almanac City Council Delays Nonprofit Alliance APRIL 5-11 Sales Tax Hike Votes To Hold Conference This week in Memphis history: Memphis City Council members The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence delayed until their first meeting in July is holding its Eighth Annual Alliance for >>>>> 1993: U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr. was acquitted of final votes on an ordinance setting a late Nonprofit Excellence Conference on May all federal bank fraud charges in the dramatic con- summer or fall referendum on a citywide 1 at Temple Israel. clusion to his second trial on the charges in three sales tax hike and a resolution designating The conference will feature national years. The jury foreman read the not guilty verdicts what the revenue will be used for. nonprofit experts, who will speak on a on 18 counts and on the final count, Ford embraced The latest delay for both measures range of topics. his oldest son, Harold Ford Jr. Co-defendants Doug- means the city will be into the new fiscal The conference will cover Guidestar’s FORD las Beaty and Karl Schledwitz were also acquitted year that begins July 1 before the sales tax influence on charitable investments, of all charges by the jury in a case that began with the collapse of the hike would take effect if it is approved for understanding donor-advised funds, Butcher bank empire in 1983. the ballot and if city voters approve it on choosing foundation priorities, and how the ballot. to have tough conversations with founda- >>>>> 1973: Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler presented a city budget pro- The delay complicates plans to use tions. posal to the Memphis City Council totaling $121.7 million, a 14.6 percent $20 million of the estimated $47 million Keynote speaker Pat Brandes, execu- increase from the previous budget. in revenue from the half percent sales tax tive director of the Barr Foundation, will hike to roll back the city property tax rate speak on networking for nonprofits. The Memphis Hunter-Jumper Classic Horse Show opened at the by 20 cents. Shelby County Equestrian Center. Council member Shea Flinn, who proposed both measures, moved for the >>>>> 1968: An estimated 20,000 people held a silent march to City Hall delay the same day that city Finance Holiday Deli Opens four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King’s Director Brian Collins told the council it Horn Lake Store widow and his children joined the march at Main and Beale Streets with might take 14 cents added to the current several thousand National Guardsmen lining both sides of Main with city property tax rate of $3.11 to generate Holiday Deli & Ham has opened its bayonets fixed. “How many men must die before we can have a free the same amount of revenue as the cur- fifth store – which also happens to be its and true and peaceful society?” she asked outside City Hall. “How long rent tax rate does. largest – in Horn Lake. will it take?” Source: “Hellhound On His Trail” by Hampton Sides. The 14 cents on the rate amounts The nearly 5,600-square-foot store to $14 million in lost revenue from the is located at 749 W. Goodman Road, and 1942: “The Courtship of Andy Hardy” starring Mickey Rooney was at recent property reappraisal in which it’s open seven days a week for breakfast, >>>>> Loew’s Palace movie theater while “Spooks Run Wild” with Bela Lugosi city and county government are dealing lunch and dinner. and the East End Kids played The Strand. for the first time with a reappraisal that It has a drive-thru and carry-out park- shows existing tax rates producing less ing, as well as free WiFi. revenue instead of more. Holiday Deli co-founder Trey Jordan oaring A R intage ffair Celebrating the VGreater Memphis Chamber’sA 175th Anniversary: Friday, April 12, 2013 FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 After all, you only turn 175 once FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 Friday, April 12, 2013 | 7:00-10:00 p.m. | Brooks Museum of Fine Art Tickets: $75 Call (901) 543-3571 or visit MemphisChamber.com MemphisBusinessNews_10x7.indd 1 3/27/2013 2:52:37 PM www.thememphisnews.com April 5-11, 2013 3 Get news daily from The Daily News, www.memphisdailynews.com. weekly digest FROM THE BLOG So Much for the Creative Class? Downtown Memphis Commission Pres. Has a Say Editor’s Note: “From the Blog” lands. Now the evidence is in own authenticity rather than thentic. You’re never cool when is a weekly feature that highlights – and the experiment appears trying to reflect what we think you’re trying to be cool. And it’s some of the enterprising work our to have failed.” Not so, says people want. never attractive when you’re staff and contributors post on The Downtown Memphis Commis- “We’ll never out-Austin trying to act like someone else. Daily News blog, blog.memphis- dailynews.com. sion president Paul Morris: Austin, or out-Charlotte Char- “A large part of Memphis’s “Memphis is best when we lotte. But no one can replicate authenticity resides in Down- are being Memphis. We don’t what we have in Memphis, and town. Downtown is where ANDY MEEK | The Memphis News do well chasing trendy, overly people from around the world Memphis was born, and it still ccording to The Daily Beast, simplified strategies advanced love us for what we are. That’s defines a large part of our iden- A“the so-called creative class by national consultants who not to say we shouldn’t be a tity to the world. That’s why we of intellects and artists was don’t know us. We should aim much better version of ourself, have to redevelop Downtown. supposed to remake America’s to be a magnet not a mirror, and seek to learn from others, If we don’t, we lose who we cities and revive urban waste- drawing people to us with our but in the end we must be au- are.” said opening the store in Horn Lake repre- partisan dispute over whether to expand Trezevant Students Join the group undertaking the center, said the sented an attempt to grow the company’s Medicaid under the health law that Presi- Frayser Earth Day Cleanup next step is to assess how much renova- presence in the broader Memphis area. dent Barack Obama signed in 2010. tion the structure will need. Democrats wanted Medicaid expan- Trezevant High School students will The house, built in 1912, was home to sion, but Republican leaders said the state join members of Leadership Memphis’ the blues artist known as Memphis Slim can’t afford it. 2013 executive class to clean garbage as well as his family. A fallen tree heavily Mississippi Lawmakers and debris from a vacant lot in Frayser to damaged the small house and last year Finish 2013 Session celebrate Earth Day. was lifted out so repairs could begin. The joint effort will give Trezevant stu- In other action, the council approved The Mississippi Legislature has ended Memphis Farmers Market dents an opportunity to improve the local a planned development for the Casablan- its three-month session. Returns Downtown environment and foster pride in their ca restaurant at 2250 Central Ave. at New The House and Senate adjourned community. The cleanup also is part of York Street. The current building will be Thursday after finishing last-minute busi- It’s opening week for the Memphis Leadership Trezevant’s school-wide effort demolished for a new structure. ness, including confirmation of several Farmers Market, which returns for its new to improve academic success. The council also approved a Budget nominees to lead agencies and serve on season this Saturday at the Central Station Rent-A-Car business at Poplar Avenue and state regulatory boards. Pavilion. Racine Drive in East Memphis as well as a Lawmakers approved most of a $5.5 There will be music with JoJo Jefferies, used car lot and car wash at 1674 Delano billion budget for fiscal 2014. authors Paul and Angela Knipple sign- Council Approves Rehab Road in Frayser at the corner of Delano But, they will have to return for a ing their book “The World in a Skillet,” Of Memphis Slim House and North Watkins Street. special session before July 1 to keep the plus the usual – fresh flowers and greens, Medicaid program alive and to put money handmade goat cheese, salads, side The Memphis City Council approved into it.