Shelby Farms Park Book Garners Gold Medal
Shelby Farms Conservancy President Jen Andrews is today accepting a gold medal at the Independent Publishers Regional and Ebook Awards...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 29, 2018 | Parks and Greening
Shelby Farms Conservancy President Jen Andrews is today accepting a gold medal at the Independent Publishers Regional and Ebook Awards...
Read MorePosted by Jimmie Covington | May 25, 2018 | Education, Shelby County government
This post is written by Jimmie Covington, veteran Memphis reporter with lengthy experience covering governmental, school, and demographic issues. He is a contributing writer with...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 23, 2018 | Criminal Justice, Shelby County government
Paul G. Summers’ nine-page letter regarding the federal oversight of the Shelby County Juvenile Court proves nothing so much as his lack of qualifications to write it in the first place....
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
A new media outlet for Memphis moved dramatically out of the due diligence process and assertively into the implementation phase with the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are tremors shaking part of Memphis but they’re not coming from the New Madrid Fault. Rather, they originate at 495 Union where The Commercial Appeal, at least for now, is...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 16, 2018 | City of Memphis Government, Downtown Revitalization, Economic Development, Shelby County government
Graceland officials say that their new proposed 6,000-seat arena will not pull events and concerts away from FedExForum, but that only hints at the biggest question...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 14, 2018 | Economic Development, Talent
OK, before we start, we acknowledge that correlation is not causation. However, it is striking that the 15-year lethargy of the Memphis...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 10, 2018 | Data Points, Economic Development
We’ve written often lately about our concern for the flagging Memphis regional economy. Brookings Institution warns that “underneath the (economy’s) headline numbers,...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 7, 2018 | Economic Development, Taxation
No one in this community has written more about the need for an economic reboot in the past 13 years than we have. We have written numerous posts about the region’s troubling...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | May 4, 2018 | City of Memphis Government, Shelby County government, Taxation
City of Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell recently called for a reduction in their government’s respective tax rates to prevent a windfall from...
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