As we’ve written before, City of Memphis government doesn’t so much have a management problem as it has a math problem. That’s why this recent headline in The Commercial Appeal was one of the most important Memphis taxpayers...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Last week I wrote about an important new study, published in the journal Science, that found that poverty itself – coping with the ever-present state of not having enough to live on – taxes the brain to the...
Read MoreFrom Huffington Post: City to deliver a tough message to business and political leaders. Detroit’s comeback, he said, depends on whether the city can improve the lives of working-class African-Americans....
Read MoreWe were pleased to see this news story over the weekend: “In a test project set to start in three months, the city of Memphis will reserve two lanes of a mile-plus stretch of Downtown’s Riverside Drive for bicycles and...
Read MoreFrom Off the Charts blog: Cutting state taxes to attract entrepreneurs is likely futile at best and self-defeating at worst, a new survey of founders of some of the country’s fastest-growing companies suggests. The study, which...
Read MoreNote: According to Governing’s data, 42.3% of the Memphis workforce are nonresidents – or 165,679 workers. 43,603 are reverse commuters. From Governing: Taxes on commuters (and reverse commuters) represent a largely...
Read MoreA Teach for America member in Mississippi started a program in her classroom two years ago that employed poetry to motivate students, to teach them the techniques of poetry, and give them a creative outlet to express their...
Read MoreOne of our favorite people, Darrell Phillips, former television reporter par excellence and now attorney at the law firm of Pietrangelo Cook, has kicked off a new blog called NewsroomLegal.com The new blog is billed as...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: For a vivid illustration of the publicly financed project that’s been dividing the city of Nashville for months, take a drive down Mayor Karl Dean’s street in the affluent Green Hills...
Read MoreMemphians are supportive of changes in police and fire services, but they want more funding for libraries, community centers, and parks. Those were two of the major conclusions from the public polling that was taken as part of...
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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 →