March 10th, 2010 12:24am UTC
There are times when it just seems that Memphis can’t get its economic development strategies into the 21st century.
It’s as if we just don’t want to compete in a knowledge economy in a global marketplace. Our economic development strategies are caught in the commodity trap, stemming from our background as an agricultural center and continuing [...]
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Sometimes, something takes on so much symbolic power that it comes to define something much broader.
For Memphis city government, that something is auto inspection.
The unconscionable waste of the only thing that really matters – time – and the silliness of a system that has no data to justify the monumental inconvenience in the lives of [...]
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March 9th, 2010 4:39pm UTC
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In my last post, I helped guide you on a tour (real or virtual) of South Parkway from the southwest corner of the Memphis parkway system at Martin Luther King-Riverside Park to its southeast corner at Airways. Now, buckle up your seatbelts because we’re ready to turn left onto what is undoubtedly the most traveled [...]
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March 7th, 2010 5:59pm UTC
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“Green Shakespeare?”
When my Rhodes College students mention to their friends and family that they are taking a seminar in this topic, they are often met with incredulity: what on earth does the Bard have to do with environmental studies? The incredulity sometimes reveals a skepticism towards any apparently trendy topic in literary studies, but more [...]
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March 4th, 2010 11:18pm UTC
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Thanks to Ms. Dorsey of Echoing Green, I finally have a name for what ails me: a “wonderful obsession” with building Memphis into a City of Choice via talent retention, entrepreneurialism, and creativity.
Although obsession normally implies a need for behavioral therapy, an effective cure in this case is simple support, encouragement, and money. (Yes, I’m [...]
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March 2nd, 2010 12:47am UTC
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On Smart City Memphis, many of us make things sound easy. Let’s just build dense, walkable neighborhoods. Let’s just remove bus fares and make the routes go here or there. Let’s tear down the rest of the public housing and humanly integrate “those people” into “normal neighborhoods”. We know why things are messed up, how [...]
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March 1st, 2010 12:45am UTC
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A Forbes rebuttal: Mapping the healthy trends in Memphis is also part of the regional story. There’s more going right than meets the eye.
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February 27th, 2010 8:43pm UTC
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I recently had the opportunity to attend the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Puebla, Mexico on initial and basic education for
indigenous and rural children. Puebla is a beautiful and thriving city; and I look forward to returning soon, with my family in tow.
Additionally, the conference was an eye-opening experience in [...]
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February 25th, 2010 12:35pm UTC
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I positively detest the cold. I’m simply not constituted for it. Winter makes everything brown and grey and nothing blooms. All those extra clothes and hats and mittens and scarves and coats make me look like that kid from A Christmas Story. And did I mention . . . it’s cold!
In summer time, I revel [...]
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February 23rd, 2010 1:29pm UTC
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Finish Beale Street Landing, review the process and let the battle on the Mississippi begin.
Over the last few months a debate has been brewing about the future of the Downtown cobblestones. The problem of the area’s deterioration has been on full display. Solutions have been presented. Problems have been revealed and changes have been made. [...]
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February 21st, 2010 12:49am UTC
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“If the local television stations start showing good news, then I know things are getting bad.”
That’s what my old boss used to say and he should know. Jim Redmond was the chair of the University of Memphis Department of Journalism and a long-time anchor in the Denver market. Like all teachers and practitioners of journalism, [...]
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February 18th, 2010 12:04am UTC
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Planning in the Memphis area is being done, in some cases at a high level and by everyone. Chambers, governments and community groups. Mayors, business leaders and developers. Everyone has a plan for something. But what is guiding these plans to ensure they are complementary? Who is coordinating efforts to ensure they don’t conflict?
Aerotropolis is [...]
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