This is not easy to say but I need to clear my conscience by apologizing. To Steve’s Tire and Auto on Poplar Avenue: I am sorry. Your crew has replaced tires, repaired breaks and been a terrific example of customer service. I...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreNothing 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...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreOver 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...
Read MoreLet 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...
Read MoreTim 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....
Read MoreSweep 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...
Read MoreWith 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....
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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 →