The AM/DM

This week serves up a new tennis tournament, a final football game and an area of Downtown drivers may want to avoid ... until September. Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips is here to tell us all about it.

Plus:

• A new state law affects who selects members for the Memphis airport board
• Collierville approves plans for a new Chick-fil-A
• International Paper closes a plant in Texas
• Mississippi lawmakers pass a sweeping youth court reform package
• Local investors buy a Midtown apartment tower for $1.25M

This weekend starts with the very fun business of early voting. And it ends with a World Cup Watch Party.

Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips joins us to talk about what we could do this weekend.

Plus:

• The Racquet Club property sold for almost $9M
• The Downtown DoubleTree PILOT gets a green light
• Bartlett appoints a voting member to the MLGW board

Early voting starts tomorrow for the Aug. 6 Shelby County general election. But the ballot also includes the state and federal primaries for the Nov. 3 election. It's a big ballot, and the Shelby County Election Commission has already made a mistake with some of the absentee ballots.

The Daily Memphian will also be offering free election coverage starting today and continuing through Friday, Aug. 7. To talk us through it all is longtime political reporter Bill Dries.

Plus:

• First Horizon reports better-than-expected second quarter results
• 'One-stop shop' for eye care will help homeless Memphians frame their future
• The Council chair allegedly pushed staff for donations
• It could soon be more difficult to build data centers in Olive Branch
• El Agave brings new life into the former San Diego Cantina

The Memphis Fire Department has a new way to handle emergency medical services: On a bike. Today on the show, we've got Wallis Rogin, one of our summer interns, to tell us all about it.

Plus:

• Tiger softball signee Tatum Bittick's social media stardom landed her an invite to Streamer University
• St. Jude is researching HIV treatment for people 16 and up
• A Collierville representative is returning to the MLGW board
• A local restaurateur is to open a seafood restaurant in the former Fancy's space
• Fogelman Properties is in expansion mode

Last month, the Memphis City Council approved $5 million towards emergency repairs for AutoZone Park. But the park still needs about $35 million in deferred maintenance on top of the $5 million that's already been approved.

Today, deputy sports editor Tim Buckley is here to talk about the needed repairs, what the team's president and general manager said about the park and what the modern baseball fan wants in a ballpark experience.

Plus:

• The City of Memphis is investigating two council members
• DeBerry clashes with MICAH on the Memphis Safe Task Force
• Hundreds of absentee ballots lack some judicial races and charter questions
• A new Midtown bicycle shop gears up for business
• The tallest tower in East Memphis is for sale
• Memphis Public Libraries' book sales and used-book storefront is closed until further notice

Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips is here to help us set up the week.

Plus:

• Germantown residents are changing their trash service with a higher-priced contract
• Regional One Health is laying off more than 100
• The In-N-Out restaurant in East Memphis is delayed
• The Greater Memphis chamber launches the search for a new leader

Bianca Phillips is here to talk all about what we could do this weekend.

There's an artist talk with Catherine Erb, who takes photographs of fireworks mid-explosion, and an art show from three students who are hoping to raise enough money to do a study abroad program in Florence, Italy.

The Ed Murphey Classic pole vaults back into town and onto Beale Street and a bunch of modern knights hit Growlers for a sword fight.

Plus:

• The DeSoto DA asks the court to throw out a suit over a 'pedophile sympathizer' comment
• A North Memphis manufactured home park wins approval despite flooding concerns
• Sales tax holidays are coming to Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas
• A DEA agent shot and killed a person in an East Memphis hotel
• IKEA attempts to change a street name in Cordova
• Auditors find that the bulk of suspected abuse at MSCS is tied to a custodial contract

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Restaurant names aren't always the easiest to pronounce. Ouri Matcha, Cocozza Italian American, Lao Sze Chuan and Ciao Bella have all been butchered a time or two.

Today, we're joined by Holly Whitfield, host of our Sound Bites podcast, and food writer Sophia Surrett to learn how to say the names of some of our favorite restaurants.

Plus:

• The US attorney's office appeals the former Evolve CEO's sentencing in child sexual abuse cases
• An East Memphis gynecologist is sentenced to 20 years for fraud
• A developer sues the proposed Collierville Chick-fil-A landowner
• Type O blood donations are needed during shortage
• The Millington police chief is retiring
• Tous les Jours is headed to the Square
• A new grocery is coming to Uptown

For 17 years, some of the world's most historic images have found their way to a Memphis warehouse, where a local business scans and digitizes them. The company, Historic Images, has digitized more than 12 million images, including pictures of Tom Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Bruce Springsteen. Today, business reporter Noah McLane is here to tell us more about Historic Images and how the business works.

Plus:

• Staff warns that a heat crisis is unfolding at the Shelby County jail
• The family of a man shot by the Tennessee National Guard demands release of the video
• Professional hockey is returning to the Mid-South
• Project Transition plans to build homes for transitional living in Southeast Memphis using intermodal containers
• Collierville-based Forever Young Veterans will dissolve
• A former HIckory Hill restaurant is to become a medical clinic

The 114th session of the Tennessee General Assembly reconvened this past January with some very high-profile bills on its agenda. But other bills flew under the radar, were enacted and went into effect on July 1. Today, Brandon LaGrone joins us to talk about some of new bills, especially ones that center on public safety, education and tech.

Plus:

• The City Council's light agenda includes a renewed grants program
• A quarterback with a physics degree and a plan for the Hound Dogs
• Quinten Post is to sign an offer sheet with the Memphis Grizzlies
• A French logistics giant is set to buy FedEx Supply Chain for $1.4 billion
• A local's "Jeopardy!" run comes to an end for now
• A smoke shop is proposed for Midtown
• A new owner sees "gold" in a Southaven strip mall