by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 31st, 2009 5:45pm CDT | Comments Off
New York City and Cape Town South Africa are two cities with two very different histories. This week on the show we’re talking about the history of New York and the future of Cape Town. Guy Lundy is the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, a business-led initiative that brings together all the stakeholders in the [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 29th, 2009 7:51pm CDT | Comments Off
Here’s the hypothesis: Tennessee’s liberal annexation law means that Memphis – unlike many similarly-sized cities across the U.S. – is not landlocked by small towns, and because of it, its population has been growing or relatively stable for several decades. However, if we use the 1970 Memphis city limitsas the definition of the “core city,” [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 27th, 2009 12:18am CDT | Comments Off
Memphis is a shrinking city. We’re not talking about the slight decrease in the raw population numbers since 2000. Rather, we’re talking about the practical impact of significant population losses in the traditional city – represented by the 1970 Memphis boundaries. It’s these areas whose neighborhoods need to be healthy and whose success is crucial [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 25th, 2009 11:43pm CDT | Comments Off
You can count us among those civil liberties advocates who were expected to oppose the Tennessee Constitutional amendment being pushed by a cadre of elected officials that include Shelby County Mayor AC Wharton, Attorney General Bill Gibbons, Sheriff Mark Luttrell, Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy and Shelby County Commissioners Chair Deidre Malone. Apparently, the political [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 23rd, 2009 9:50pm CDT | Comments Off
Change is in the air and we’ve got the numbers to prove it on today’s show. At a time when tax revenues are declining and city budgets are strained, our first guest has a modest proposal that could produce big dividends for cities. Joe Cortright is an economist for Impresa Consulting in Portland, Oregon, and [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 23rd, 2009 12:53am CDT | Comments Off
In a previous life as a journalist, one of us had an editor fond of yelling at offending reporters who failed to bring back a story: “There are no bad cities. Only bad reporters.” Clearly, it’s an adage that applies just as aptly to public relations professionals. Or at least that’s what came to mind [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 20th, 2009 7:06pm CDT | Comments Off
Nancy Coffee is president and CEO of Leadership Academy: “The state of the economy calls for action bold and swift.” The remark by Barack Obama in his inaugural address is one that resonates with the mission and the work of the Academy Masters and Fellows. As we look at the year ahead, there will no [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 19th, 2009 7:10pm CDT | Comments Off
Beverly Robertson is executive director of National Civil Rights Museum: It is my hope that we can galvanize a substantial base of young people to assume leadership roles in this community and become engaged in the political process. As we usher in a new era of leadership in this country, we should embrace new thinking, [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 19th, 2009 1:11pm CDT | Comments Off
Anthony Siracusa is the guiding force behind Revolutions Community Bicycle Shop: My dream is a city with flocks of bicycle commuters riding to work each morning. I dream of schoolchildren riding with their parents in to school, bundling up against the chilly winter temperatures and enjoying the pleasant breeze across their noses in the fall [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 18th, 2009 1:46pm CDT | Comments Off
As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 18th, 2009 12:52pm CDT | Comments Off
AC Wharton is Mayor of Shelby County: To use an old phrase, the end of the year 2008 and the beginning of the year of 2009 represent the worst of times and the best of times. It is the worst of times in terms of our country’s overall economic and financial meltdown. Unemployment bordering on [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 18th, 2009 12:45pm CDT | Comments Off
Shea Flinn is a Memphis City Councilman: The word change was beaten into the ground, dug up, and beaten into the ground again in 2008. But we as a city and a country did go through a transformation. For me this was beautifully illustrated by the Police Residency vote and subsequent firestorm. Back in February, [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 18th, 2009 12:42pm CDT | Comments Off
Greg Thompson is director of education for Hyde Family Foundations: “To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” – Franklin Roosevelt (1936) Seventy three years later – with hard economic times befalling us, with racial harmony eluding us, and with the promise [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 16th, 2009 1:31pm CDT | Comments Off
As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 16th, 2009 1:28pm CDT | Comments Off
David Williams is president of Leadership Memphis: I think the problem most people have with developing a list of hopes for Memphis is feeling overwhelmed with the potential length of such a list. For those that see the Memphis glass as half full, there is a long list of opportunities to pursue, such as the [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 16th, 2009 1:12pm CDT | Comments Off
Linn Sitler is the president of the Memphis and Shelby County Film Commission: A resolution? One of my new year’s resolutions is to — as Knox Phillips, bearer of Memphis’ biggest heart — told me years ago, “…get on The High Road.” From Knox, my Mother, my religion, and the teachings of Norman Vincent Peale, [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 15th, 2009 11:24pm CDT | Comments Off
Aaron Shafer is a researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the driving force behind Skatelife Memphis: My hope is that this is the year that we stop pointing fingers at each other and rid ourselves of a toxic welfare mentality. There is this pervading attitude that someone else needs to take care of [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 15th, 2009 11:00pm CDT | Comments Off
John Kirkscey is the creative force behind Memphis Art Park: I wish that Memphis would take greater pride in its historic role in greatly influencing the uniqueness and trajectory of the American culture. Such pride would lead to a high level of confidence that this city sorely lacks. We still have the capacity to inspire [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 14th, 2009 5:54pm CDT | Comments Off
Brad Leon heads up Teach For America in Memphis: Every time Barack Obama said, “Yes we can,” during his presidential campaign, and especially on election night, I was reminded of why I became an educator. Teaching in New Orleans, I saw firsthand the effects of the academic achievement gap between children in low-income communities and [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 14th, 2009 4:59pm CDT | Comments Off
Dorothy Gunther Pugh is founding artistic director an CEO of Ballet Memphis: Well then, it is my hope that Memphians will find within themselves the capacity to find their own joy, and creatively spread their discoveries to as many people as they can. Leadership that provides opportunities for this exercise of discovery would certainly be [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 14th, 2009 4:56pm CDT | Comments Off
Henry Turley is the head of his eponymous firm: Let the Fair Ground commence.
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 13th, 2009 6:16pm CDT | Comments Off
As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.
by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
Photograph by Amie Vanderford
This ongoing series of photographs is intended to show the daily lives of these single mothers in order to invoke recognition of their similarities to all mothers, along with understanding and empathy from the viewer of the strengths that these single mothers possess within the challenging situations they face. My hope is that newfound empathy with these mothers’ lives will give people some pause before they condemn single mothers when discussing issues such as welfare and other politically charged hot buttons.
