From Vancouver Sun: What do we do when a stable community resists change because there’s nothing for residents to gain from accepting change? How does a community with serious housing affordability challenges contend with...
Read MoreCity of Memphis budget deliberations have become déjà vu all over again. Because of declining revenues and climbing public safety costs, the tug-of-war more and more becomes an exercise in accounting rather than a discussion...
Read MoreFrom Urban Times: Union Square, New York City. Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/1_new_york_city_union_square_2010.JPG Public spaces are increasingly being recognized as a crucial ingredient for...
Read MoreAn executive with the Memphis Area Transit Authority says that the public transit agency is moving from the Pony Express to the Space Age. His comments were of course hyperbole, but only barely. After years of serving as...
Read MoreAs you read this blog entry, deep in the heart of the Memphis Bioworks offices, five “companies to be” are deep in preparations to take the next step toward commercialization and ultimately, they hope, business success. The five...
Read MoreIt’s been said that when the economy sneezes, poor people catch pneumonia. It’s the same diagnosis for a city with a high poverty rate. Memphis may be doing its best to cope with a bad case of walking pneumonia but the...
Read MoreTo see Symposium poster, click here. “Globalization” has now been a buzzword for over half a century. Whether one valorizes or villifies the notion, it’s often presumed that the process of globalization is moving us inexorably...
Read MoreMemphis Mayor A C Wharton recently talked to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam about toxic stress, brain development, and epigenetics. The mayor may not have used those actual words, but in asking for the state’s help...
Read MoreThe timing is right for Memphis and Shelby County to determine what tools it needs in its toolkit if we are to compete in economic development. Then again, we should more often use some tools that we already have — Tax Increment...
Read MoreIf the new plan to be undertaken by EDGE does not include the University of Memphis as a centerpiece, it is not really an economic development plan. The university is the chief source of talent – college-educated workers...
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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 →