Memo of the Week
On the radio program on WKNO-FM, Whad’ya Know, the host often reads his favorite memos of the week. We were looking around on the Shelby County Government website, and we found this one which could qualify for the...
Read MoreMonth: July 2014
Business Incentives Don’t Create New Jobs, Small Businesses Do
From Washington Post: If you can’t build your own, steal someone else’s. That, one economist notes, has become the default strategy for state and city governments in their pursuit of rapidly growing businesses, with many...
Read MoreSuburban Tax Break By County Five Times Bigger Than Memphis’s
Shelby County’s tax burden just became more inequitable. It happened when four Shelby County Commissioners whose constituents are primarily within Memphis – Steve...
Read MoreSchool Board Races: Bluff City Education and Stand for Children
Our friends over at Bluff City Education are posting information and profiles of candidates for the Shelby County Schools board who responded to its request for information on their positions and vision for the district. Here...
Read MoreData Points: Union Membership
The following are the percentages of the public and private workforces that are union members in selected cities: Memphis Public: 29.3% Private: 5.3% Nashville Public: 20.7% Private: 2.4% Atlanta Public: 15.9% Private: 4.5%...
Read MoreInfographic: 10 Memphis Stereotypes
The following infographic was submitted by Derek Rojers with gratitude to Extra Space Storage.
Read MoreFacts on Firing Line in Labor Firefights
Despite protests to the contrary, the Memphis firefighters union’s statement connecting tax freezes and city budgets (in its case, pension funding) was not an illogical connection...
Read MoreNew Drug Law Affects Many in Memphis
Author’s Note: The subject of drug abuse, drug addictions and mental health are something that concern a great many of us, whether as sufferers, as relatives or carers of sufferers or as members of society who have...
Read MoreStaying Focused On People, Not Cars, in Overton Park
The recent issue of the Memphis Flyer featured an update on the controversy concerning zoo parking on the greensward at Overton Park, but the most interesting aspect...
Read MoreAnother Pedestrian Mall Bites the Dust
In 2008, former design director of the National Endowment for the Arts, architect, planner, and author Jeff Speck suggested that Memphis should return traffic to Main Street’s pedestrian mall. Buffalo is doing just that,...
Read MoreLatest Bill Day Cartoon
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 →