June 30, 2009 I’ve added another salary database to the Commercial Appeal’s Data Center: Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division employees’ 2008 earnings are now searchable. I’ve included a few graphs about recent storms, its operating budget and profit, and linked to a couple recent stories about the utility.
Check out the database: MLGW salaries 2008.
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April 28, 2009 From Editor & Publisher:
Memphis Commercial Appeal leads with the most daily circulation gains at nearly 31 percent.
But those are mostly Newspaper In Education electronic editions, while regular dead-tree circulation declines.
Read about it here.
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April 27, 2009 
Check out what the Des Moines Register is doing today, the first day gay couples can legally marry in Iowa. Pretty cool use of public records (yes, Hamilton County, they are public) for a visually appealing, timely and useful web application.
As I’m writing this there were 380 licenses already issued. Think about that — in one day, 760 people, who a day ago were denied the same rights as heterosexual people, took the first step in marrying the person of their choosing. Pretty awesome.
Props to Craig Johnson, James E. Wilkerson and Michael Corey of the Des Moines Register.
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