Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland is no doubt right. He does represent the views of his constituents in District 4. The real question these days is whether they think he does it well. His bludgeoning of potential...
Read MoreFrom City Journal: Central Park in spring may be the most glorious public space on Earth. Flowering dogwoods and lilacs scent the air as children, sprung from being cooped up all winter, pack the playgrounds. Bicyclists and...
Read MoreFrom Seattle Times: You want green? There’s never been anything greener. The Bullitt Center, which celebrates its official groundbreaking Monday, has been designed to produce as much energy as it consumes. Provide all its...
Read MoreVibrancy: Pulsing or throbbing with energy or activity, such as the vibrancy in the streets of a big city. There’s little question that urbanists today are obsessed with vibrancy. With good reason. More and more, it is vibrancy...
Read MoreFrom ProPublica: With increasing signs that the economy is laboring, most economists agree that a short-term infusion of spending, or an extension of this year’s temporary cut in Social Security taxes, could help fend off...
Read Morehttp://www.alternet.org/story/152148/the_founding_fathers_believed_in_redistributing_wealth_–_why_do_tea_party_heroes_like_perry_and_bachmann_vilify_it From AlterNet: American conservatives have lurched so far to the right...
Read MoreFrom Crosscut: Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop...
Read MoreFrom Good: Citizens have always made their marks on cities—graffiti has been an urban presence for millennia—but land use and city planning have long been the province of professionals and bureaucrats. As a result, many urban...
Read MoreIt seemed that even Google was trying to tell us something. We’ve been intrigued by the idea that Memphis should consider a European-inspired park for the 30-acre field on our riverfront just south of Beale Street...
Read MoreFrom Harvard Business Review blogs: Why isn’t talent on your shopping list now that your company is flush with cash? With more than a trillion dollars on the collective balance sheet, U.S. companies are poised to spend...
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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 →