by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Memphis City Schools | June 8th, 2009 12:22am CST | 1 Comment
It’s been a tumultuous first year for Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, but after a bumpy start, he seems to be finding his stride in his first job at the helm of large urban district. While there’s always something controversial going on in the $1 billion business that is public education, there is more [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | June 4th, 2009 2:58pm CST | Comments Off
Yesterday’s vote by Memphis City Council’s budget committee may have been a political master stroke, but more to the point, it was a lesson in Civics 101. A day earlier, Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton had said in effect that he would decide the future of the Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center. Council members used [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | June 3rd, 2009 12:24am CST | Comments Off
Apparently, Tennessee Rep. Curry Todd took too many hard fouls to the head during his glory days as a hardwood phenom. We’re not sure what excuse Sen. Paul Stanley has, unless it’s been hit too many times over the head with the Bible or by former Stanford Financial investors. Either way, these Republican state legislators [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | June 2nd, 2009 11:55am CST | Comments Off
Coverage by the news media about the passage of the anti-discrimination resolution by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners suggested to some that yesterday’s vote was a Pyrrhic victory. That’s not true. The shift from an ordinance to resolution was irrelevant in the application and enforcement. They both have the same force of law and [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | June 1st, 2009 7:27pm CST | Comments Off
We have seen the underbelly of college sports and it is our own. Weeks have passed since our messy divorce from University of Memphis basketball coach John Calipari, and he got players, secretaries, assistant coaches, Chinese coaches, and most of all, our idealism. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We were too cynical [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | June 1st, 2009 1:02am CST | Comments Off
Memphis has no margin for error. Because of it, decisions like the one today on a county anti-discrimination ordinance are much more than parochial controversies. To the contrary, all that we do now is amplified and magnified, and a vote by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in favor of the fairness could become a [...]
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Memphian Amie Vanderford is a photographer for peace and justice. Her portfolio includes photographs from Peru, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Indian, and her hometown.
