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Month: April 2011

The Phony Bike Lane Backlash

From DC Streets Blog: The media loves drama, of course. As your high school English teacher explained it, if Hamlet doesn’t get pissed about his dad’s murder or if Atticus Finch doesn’t step up to defend a black man falsely...

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Anti-Gay Gospel Trumps WWJD

  The churches moving from mainstream Presbyterianism to anti-gay, hidebound fundamentalist Presbyterianism are on the wrong side of history and religion. For the first time in history, the most religious country in the...

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Steve Bares: Bioscience and Aerotropolis

In today’s economy and today’s business environment, all business advances have an international impact.  Every new development, every advancement is embraced across the globe.  While that may be very evident in such industries...

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Smarter Punishment, Less Crime

From The Prospect: By Mark Kleiman Why reducing incarceration and victimization should be complementary goals Despite the dramatic fall in crime rates since 1994, crime continues to impose massive social costs, strongly...

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Public Education Under Assault

From TruthDig: By Chris Hedges A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...

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Respecting Teachers

From the Futures of School Reforms blog:   By Robert Schwartz One of the issue areas I’ve paid most attention to in the last few years is teacher policy, an area in which it is pretty clear that the U.S. has a lot to...

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Latest Bill Day Cartoon

Donald Quixote, An Award-Winning Cartoon by Bill Day

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 →

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About Smart City Memphis

Since 2005, this has been Smart City Consulting’s blog with the aim of connecting the dots and providing perspective on issues and policies shaping Memphis.  Editor and primary author is Tom Jones, City Journal columnist at Memphis magazine, author of two books and a museum exhibition, and consultant on public policy and strategic planning.  He has written articles for MLK50, The Commercial Appeal, and USA Today. The blog was called one of the most intriguing blogs in the U.S. by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change; The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal said it “provides some of the most well-thought-out thinking about Memphis’ past, present, and future you’ll find anywhere,” and the Memphis Flyer said: “This incredibly well-written blog sets out to solve the city’s ills – from the mayor to MATA – with out-of-the-box thinking, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ideas.” If you have questions, submissions, or ideas for posts, please email Tom Jones, at tjones@smartcityconsulting.com.

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