MIFA<\/a> will partner with author Matthew Desmond for an online community conversation on eviction at noon on Wednesday, October 7. Memphis has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic economy, with a disproportionate number of citizens behind on their rent. Desmond is the author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City<\/em> which you can order at a 10% discount from Novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Job alert: Food services company Sysco is hiring an outside sales representative<\/a> for the Midtown\/Downtown area.<\/p>\n Amber Rae Dunn and Shufflegrit<\/a> play Live at the Tracks Friday night 7:30 to 9:30. Come listen at Central Station’s socially distanced outdoor space or listen online. Expect classic covers, rockabilly, and in keeping with the venue, maybe a few train songs.<\/p>\n Patricia Wilson Aden has been selected as the new leader of the Blues Foundation.<\/a> She will start on October 1. Current president Babara Newman is retiring.<\/p>\n Uh oh, this next piece of news is not good.<\/p>\n Looking at the Shelby County COVID-19 data page<\/a>, the 7-day rolling positivity rate (5th graph from the top) is beginning to trend in the wrong direction. After hitting a low of 9.7%, it bounced back up to 10.1% and now 10.5%. That’s above the 10% threshold the health department wants to see to consider reopening the bars and loosening the stupid regulations on restaurants. The 7-day rolling new case average is also up, although at 112 that is much less of a concern (threshold 180).<\/p>\n Note that we’re now about 10 days removed from the extended Labor Day weekend, so it’s not like the upward-trending numbers were a surprise: We saw similar trends following the Memorial Day and July 4 weekends. It’s a shame though… we were so close to winning more freedoms back, and now it looks like we may be in for even more weeks of<\/p>\n Even more bad news: No Peeps for Halloween this year.<\/a>\u00a0Don’t expect them for Christmas or Valentine’s Day either. COVID RUINS EVERYTHING! I guess no-contact Peeps were too expensive to make.<\/p>\n I’ll try to tune in to the task force press conference today at noon. If there’s anything significant about bars or restaurants, I’ll do an afternoon update. If not, I will save the recap for tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n I hit my October goal for writing revenue today and am very close to hitting another, related goal. If I get there I will celebrate with a\u00a0 visually-impaired member of the ursine family this evening. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was big news yesterday about Domino’s making a $100 million donation to St. Jude, but they are not the only ones contributing – and you can help. Yesterday Amazon announced a quarterly donation of $562,635.12 to the children’s hospital. The money came from the Amazon Smile program where a small portion of the amount … Continue reading “Tuesday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24122,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions\/24122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid.jpg?resize=423%2C500\")
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