by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Politics and Government | February 17th, 2012 12:43am CST | 3 Comments
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but often, the men making religious decisions seem to come from an entirely different universe. Or maybe they just have a chronically tin ear when it comes to women’s issues, a deafness intensified by fundamentalism and an obsession with [...]
by SCM (RSS) Politics and Government | February 8th, 2012 2:00pm CST | 1 Comment
From Urbanophile: If you look at the typical urban redevelopment efforts in any given city, they are heavy on capital expenditures. I’ve noticed quite a slew of articles on this of late related to Detroit: a light rail line on Woodward, a new bridge to Canada, a new transit station in suburban Troy, rebuilding and [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Politics and Government | February 8th, 2012 12:16am CST | 5 Comments
It’s as easy to imagine Memphis without FedEx as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Both are here because of fortuitous – if not providential – twists of fate. Both are equal parts myth and fact, and from a germ of an improbable idea, each founder [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) City of Memphis Government, Politics and Government | February 6th, 2012 12:44am CST | 6 Comments
It seems the perfect time for City of Memphis to decide what it wants to be when it grows up, and specifically if this means growing out. Normally, the single greatest driver of the political process is crisis management and scenario thinking is about [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) City of Memphis Government, Politics and Government, Tennessee Legislature | February 1st, 2012 5:00pm CST | 12 Comments
Anti-Memphis suburban politicians –the political equivalent of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight – have done it again. They regularly manage to yank defeat from the jaws of victory. Driven by narrow partisan agenda and conversations in the Nashville echo chamber, they lose all perspective of the consequences of [...]
by SCM (RSS) Politics and Government, Uncategorized | January 27th, 2012 2:00pm CST | No Comments
From Barry Chase, head of our local Planned Parenthood office: Attacks on Planned Parenthood patients in Tennessee have intensified. I received notification on December 28 from the Director of the Tennessee Department of Health that although we had been informed that we would receive HIV prevention and Syphilis prevention funding to provide these services to [...]
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
Memphian Amie Vanderford is a photographer for peace and justice. Her portfolio includes photographs from Peru, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Indian, and her hometown.
