Beale Street Landing: Paying For Itself And Then Some
Thumbnail: Beale Street Landing, when the river cruise industry is not hobbled by COVID-19,...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Mar 4, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Downtown Revitalization, Economic Development, Taxation, Tourism | 0
Thumbnail: Beale Street Landing, when the river cruise industry is not hobbled by COVID-19,...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0
Thumbnail: Park roads are being closed in cities across America. Peter Harnik hopes they stay that way and that includes Riverside Drive as he wrote in an article in the monthly magazine of National Recreation and Park Association. Mr. Harnik is co-founder of City Parks Alliance, co-founder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, founder of the Center for Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land, author of Urban Green and Inside City Parks, and creator of ParkScore for rating park systems across America. He has also worked in Memphis, advising Shelby Farms Park in its earliest days and writing a report on the Memphis park system. As I wrote in a post interviewing him in 2016, if you are looking to talk to the smartest person about city parks in the U.S., he is that person.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 27, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0
by Smart City Memphis | Feb 25, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Livability, Neighborhoods | 0
Thumbnail: Memphis Food Waste Project has set an audacious goal for the next years but with an active collaboration, there is hope that it will contribute to reducing Memphis’ carbon footprint while reducing food waste in a city where three out of four people live in food desserts.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 22, 2021 | Tennessee Legislature | 0
Thumbnail: Tennessee Senator Brian Kelsey mixes his elected office with his right wing employer’s agenda in Nashville. Once again, he’s pitching a constitutional amendment as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 18, 2021 | Arts and Culture | 0
When I was in high school, I was fortunate enough to see Mark Twain Tonight…twice. If you want to...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 15, 2021 | Livability, Transportation | 0
Thumbnail: While other cities are closing cities because of COVID and to improve the quality of life, Memphis City Council is focused on Riverside Drive and it asking the wrong question.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0
We are grateful that award-winning cartoonist Bill Day allows us to post his work on this blog. ...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 10, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Civil Rights, Neighborhoods, Shelby County government | 0
Thumbnail: The Byhalia Pipeline mobilizes a well-funded PR and government lobbying program to...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 8, 2021 | Media | 0
Thumbnail: Halfway to the year it set for its financial sustainability, Daily Memphian operated in 2019 at a $1.4 million deficit. Sustainability hinges on its success in reaching its goal of 25,000 subscribers, a 66% increase.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 5, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Economic Development, Shelby County government, Taxation | 0
My op-ed published in The Commercial Appeal February 2, 2021: There’s little in our over reliance...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 4, 2021 | Data Points, Economic Development | 0
By David Ciscel University of Memphis Professor Emeritus of Economics ...
Read Moreby 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 →