To read entire commentary from Urban0phile, click here. …I gradually became aware that many of the stops were at Sim-city like attractions – the kind you are allowed to build when your city gets to a certain size- such as...
Read MoreFrom Forbes magazine: More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. This map visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red...
Read MoreFrom Livable Memphis: Memphis needs vibrant places for people to live, work, shop and recreate. The Madison Avenue corridor can be exactly that – if we get the built environment right. What truly drives economic activity? People...
Read MoreDaylight at the End of the Transit Tunnel… As a few of you might have read in a previous post on the matter, I outlined several opinions regarding initiatives- from small and low cost to large and capital demanding- to improve...
Read MoreHarvard economist Ed Glaeser said it emphatically in Memphis in March: Successful cities in the future will be those with thriving startups. Memphis has a long way to go. We’re ranked #87 on the list of the largest 100...
Read MoreFrom Dissent: Libya and the democracy movement in the Arab world have sucked much of the oxygen from the political air. President Obama, after deciding to intervene against Muammar Qaddafi, returned to campaign mode. He boasted...
Read MoreSymphony orchestras across the U.S. are fighting for the lives and scratching for community support. In this environment, Memphis is lucky to have a new conductor who is injecting new energy into our symphony orchestra and who...
Read MoreFrom ArtsJournal.com: By Sarah Lutman Last week I had the honor of serving as Co-Chair, with Nicholas Kenyon, of a session at the Salzburg Global Seminar titled, “Instrumental Value: The Transformative Power of Music.” Nearly...
Read MoreWe were looking at two time lapse videos – one about Paris and one about London – and we were reminded why these are cities’ spells hold so many of us. Take a few minutes to watch them with this question in...
Read MoreFrom Grist: This is the fourth column in a series focusing on the economics of bicycling. Bicycling and driving have one thing in common that is almost universally frustrating, time consuming, friction causing, and...
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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 →