by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 8th, 2010 12:26am CDT | Comments Off
Last year about this time, Ben Self, co-founder of the company that led the digital part of the Obama campaign that transformed political campaigns as we have known them, laid out a glimpse into Memphis if it becomes the first city to apply the tools to city-building. With all of the exciting energy emanating from [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 7th, 2010 12:43am CDT | 3 Comments
Nothing is quite as confusing as government financing, and that’s never been truer than now. There seems to be big numbers every where – the $30 million for The Pyramid, there’s the idea of a new convention center likely to cost at least $500 million, there’s the tens of millions of dollars for Liberty Bowl [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 6th, 2010 12:14am CDT | 4 Comments
We guess we’re cursed with 20-20 hindsight. That’s why we don’t automatically sign on to Congressman Steve Cohen’s rant about the Tea Party. Put simply, we subscribe today just as much as we did in the Sixties to the words of President John Kennedy: “The people who create power make an indispensable contribution to the [...]
by Josh Whitehead (RSS) Uncategorized | April 5th, 2010 3:38pm CDT | 3 Comments
This post represents the third (Part 1 and Part 2) and final tour of the Memphis parkway system. By this time, you have toured South Parkway from MLK-Riverside Park to East Parkway, twisting and turning several times around its famous “jogs.” Once on East Parkway, you experienced an equally stimulating drive negotiating around the ever [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Downtown Revitalization | April 5th, 2010 12:49am CDT | 18 Comments
Over the years, the biggest mistakes made by Memphis City Council are the ones made when its members aim low. And it appears that’s just what they are thinking about doing now by not finishing Beale Street Landing right. We appreciate the hard choices in front of City Council right now, but it’s worth remembering [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 4th, 2010 12:08am CDT | 4 Comments
Let the pandering begin. Shelby County Schools Board Chairman David Pickler has now officially begun his campaign, and as reliably as the Mississippi River flooding each year, his brand of divisive “we versus they” politics is already in full display. Mr. Pickler has an incredible capacity to summon up some bogey man to spread his [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 3rd, 2010 10:10pm CDT | Comments Off
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, one of the world’s leading computer book publishers and technology consultancies for open source, open standards and sensible intellectual property laws. He is a well-known thought leader on the use of web-related technologies to improve accountability and transparency in government, the movement known as Government [...]
by John Lawrence (RSS) Uncategorized | April 2nd, 2010 12:56am CDT | 2 Comments
Sweep the streets when it’s dark! Several years ago cities thought they were in crisis. Revenues were falling, expenses were growing and emergency funds were depleted. Some aggressively changed tact, or challenged people or cut costs. Most waited it out hoping the storm would pass. Memphis has an opportunity to use our budget crisis today [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | April 2nd, 2010 12:48am CDT | 1 Comment
With so much wrong in the world and so much need in Memphis, it makes us sleep soundly at night knowing that some Memphis legislators and the Shelby County drug court judge are spending their time working to make Spice illegal. The “herbal smoking mixture” produces a distinct high, and apparently that’s enough to set [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Economic Development | April 1st, 2010 12:15am CDT | 2 Comments
If Memphis is serious about economic development, it has to get more serious about entrepreneurs. In a recent policy brief for Harvard University, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr point to the close correlation between entrepreneurship and regional economic growth. In addition, places with more start-ups also had faster growth in income and employment. In [...]
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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.
