What a difference a few years can make. It wasn’t so long ago that Washington politicians ran for office on the platform of fighting crime and getting tough on criminals. These days, it’s rare to hear any of them even mention...
Read MoreHere they go again. Just when we think the Tennessee Legislature has run out of hare-brained ideas, here they come with its anti-intellectual, anti-science legislation hoping to get creationism’s foot in the door of our...
Read MoreFrom Next American City: Of all the design disciplines, historic preservation is perhaps the most misunderstood. While it’s widely accepted that architects design our buildings, and planners organize our cities, the role of...
Read MoreTennessee’s House Bill 368 passed the House of Representatives on a 70-23 vote on April 7, 2011. “The debate ranged over the scientific method, ‘intellectual bullies,’ hair spray and ‘Inherit the...
Read MoreIt might sound strange, but one of our favorite blogs is the FedEx Citizenship Blog. The company describes it this way: The FedEx blog is a place for personal insights into our company, our innovation, and the FedEx...
Read MoreBy Richard Florida for Atlantic magazine: For link, click here. America is an increasingly conservative nation, by ideology and by political affiliation, according to polling results from the Gallup Organization. While...
Read MoreWe’ve written before about the surcharge we pay as consumers for civic bragging rights that we are a hub, first for Northwest Airlines and now for Delta Airlines. Economic development types greet expressions of concern...
Read MoreOn Sunday, April 10th, from 2 to 7pm, many residents of the historic East Buntyn neighborhood will be hosting an arts fair unlike any other held in Memphis. Arts and handicrafts will be on display on residents’ front...
Read MoreFollowing up a recent post about Tax Increment Financing, how about another alphabet approach that could be a positive addition to Memphis’ tools for the future? It’s a BID. To recap, we’re suggesting that our economic...
Read MoreFrom Rustwire: This is the full text of a letter from a business owner on why he might need to leave Michigan. This guy NAILED it, what we have been trying to express on this blog about sprawl and economic vitality. This is what...
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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 →