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Tennessee Stands at Level III State of Emergency Due to Weather

After a stable weather event overnight, we’ve received updated weather information this morning from the National Weather Service. Click HERE for the slides. Slides 7 and 11 in the PowerPoint provide views of potential ice impact.

There are reports this morning of icing in Memphis and in TN’s northwest counties, including Benton, Dyer, Humphreys, Lake, Obion and Weakly. Also we have reports of icing of the I-40 bridge crossing the Tennessee River.

FORECAST

The National Weather Service is now calling for THREE rounds of winter precipitation to impact Tennessee.

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Debit Card Swipe Fee Reform Lowers Prices –Tennesseans Benefit!

A new study finds that cutting debit fees put $5.8 billion in consumers’ hands through lower prices and created 37,500 new jobs annually.

WASHINGTON – A new economic report released this month by the Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC) shows that debit card swipe fee reform gave a much-needed boost to the U.S. economy in 2012, as anticipated by Congress when it passed debit reform legislation in 2010.

Reducing the cost for merchants to swipe debit cards put $5.8 million back into the hands of consumers through lower prices, which led to increased spending and helped create 37,501 new jobs, according to the report.

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