Archive for July, 2007
July 30th, 2007 11:21pm UTC
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Little more than a week ago, we wrote about the hardening attitude of state government about the 17 high-priority schools in Memphis City Schools and prospects for some dramatic action by the governor. In response to the post, we were asked by several people what the governor could do. The answer: Pretty much anything he [...]
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July 29th, 2007 7:25pm UTC
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Memphis never seems to have so little energy that it isn’t willing to fight an old battle one more time. The current archetype for this tendency is taking place at the National Civil Rights Museum, where, 16 years after being ousted, its former chairman of the board is still warring with those in charge of [...]
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July 27th, 2007 10:18pm UTC
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Exploring what it means to be a Creative City has been a regular topic on Smart City. This week we’ll visit with Lynda Dorrington who is leading her own creative city movement in Perth, an isolated city on the west coast of Australia. Lynda is executive director of FORM, a craft organization serving Western Australia [...]
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July 26th, 2007 3:56pm UTC
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In pursuing that elusive quality – vibrancy – that regularly seems at the heart of successful cities, Memphis, like many mid-sized cities, searches often for the magic of big projects and major public investments. The irony is that vibrancy often stems from small-scale, organic activities like those organized in Memphis by Lantana Projects. Propelled by [...]
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July 25th, 2007 5:37pm UTC
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Art Wolff is a pain in the neck. As he once put it, he set out to be one and he’s gotten awfully good at it. For almost 35 years, he has upbraided mayors, disabused city and county engineers of any notion that they are godlike and lived the life of a pariah at hundreds [...]
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July 24th, 2007 6:57pm UTC
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We’re guest blogging this week on CEOs For Cities’ blog and putting the posts here as well: Memphis Tourism Foundation is launching its first website in a few days and along with it, a new approach to improving the opinion of Memphians about Memphis. It’s a total departure, because rather than fall back on the [...]
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July 23rd, 2007 9:41pm UTC
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We’re guest blogging this week on CEOs For Cities’ blog and putting the posts here as well: Dr. Aaron Shafer represents the talent that so many cities are concentrated on attracting, but for now, Memphis has him. He’s a post-doctoral fellow working as a scientist in the labs of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where [...]
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July 23rd, 2007 10:53am UTC
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In response to Friday’s post about the potential takeover by Governor Phil Bredesen of 17 city schools, we were asked for a list of the schools. Here it is: Airways Middle, Carver High, Cypress Middle, East High, Fairley High, Frayser High, Geeter Middle, Hamilton High, Kingsbury High, Sherwood Middle, Southside High School, Treadwell Elementary, Treadwell [...]
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July 22nd, 2007 10:28pm UTC
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From Carol Coletta’s CEOs For Cities’ blog: This is fun. Get your neighborhood’s walkability score here. Just log in with your address. Super simple. My current Chicago neighborhood scores a 67 out of 100 (no doubt due to too little retail in the immediate vicinity, but plenty within my walking distance — we’re only 17 [...]
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July 22nd, 2007 8:03pm UTC
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Kip Bergstrom, executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, is one of the smartest people we know, and no one bears more listening to. “Leadership is about telling stories,” he said to this year’s class of Leadership Memphis. We were reminded of his advice in light of our past week’s discussion about great [...]
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