by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | July 1st, 2009 11:05pm CDT | Comments Off
Memphis got screwed again, and the culprit was a familiar one – state government. Back when the promises were made that the economic stimulus spigots would be turned on in Washington, Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton joined the chorus of mayors who were concerned that cities would be short-changed. He was right: highway funding [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | February 23rd, 2009 12:35am CDT | Comments Off
The national Republican Party seems loathe to learn the lessons of the past election. Because of it, they are caught up in rhetoric that only makes it look either tone-deaf to the last election’s message or simply ridiculous. After all, it doesn’t seem to have dawned that the same old play book won’t create the [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | February 10th, 2009 11:29pm CDT | Comments Off
There’s always the day when the government reformer comes face-to-face with the government reality. That’s happened in short order to President Barack Obama, and unfortunately, part of it seems to be of his own making. There’s a reason that Sears couldn’t reinvent itself to become Wal-Mart. There’s a reason that Washington insiders can’t be expected [...]
by Smart City Memphis (RSS) Uncategorized | January 7th, 2009 2:34am CDT | Comments Off
The Obama Administration’s poorly conceived and vaguely defined economic stimulus package shows signs of a much-needed fine tuning. It’s high time, because the announcement that a pot of gold containing up to $1 trillion for “infrastructure projects” has done little but produce the most unimaginative, city-adverse proposals in memory. Most are heavy on public works [...]
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.
