It was inevitable that the Confederate parks controversy would attract national attention, but the best news of all for us is that after the Klan marches around while, we won’t have to ever worry about the faux history...
Read MoreFrom Governing: What began in the 1990s as a trend evolved toward a movement that has become commonplace in government organizations: the adoption and implementation of so-called “best practices” as a method for...
Read MoreWho knew that when we wrote this posts in May 10, 2010, that we’d be looking back today to that time as the good old days? The Tennessee Legislature, now recognized widely as the worst state legislature in the nation,...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Big roads and parking garages are so common in American cities that it’s easy to forget these places once functioned exceptionally well without them. However, in their persistent battle to satisfy the...
Read MoreFrom Education Week: Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough words—particularly, sophisticated academic words—to close the gap, according to the latest in a series of studies by...
Read MoreWe’ve written often about the dangers of Memphis blindly pursuing cheapness as our chief competitive strategy for the future. We’ve seen it play out in our economic development behavior for two decades as we watched cities boom...
Read MoreFrom citiwire.net by Neal Peirce: Across the world, the gap between rich and poor is widening. It’s a grim harbinger for 21st-century peace and progress. The United States and its communities are not exempt. That’s the case...
Read MoreFrom Education Week: As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy—the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards—has raised difficult questions about whether those schools...
Read MoreIt has been just over six years ago that former Shelby County Commissioner John Willingham laid out a plan for a payroll privilege tax that would eliminate the 2.25% local option sales tax, eliminate the wheel tax, slice the...
Read MoreFrom Salon: Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., as I and others have argued. Neither can contemporary American economic debates. The real choice facing America in...
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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 →