Kids Don’t Do The Crime, But They Do The Time
Monday’s report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation gives new meaning to the aphorism: Do the crime, do the time. As it turns out, the people doing the time are also children, whose...
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It’s Poverty, Not Gentrification, That’s The Problem
Memphis should be so lucky as to have a gentrification problem. If it did, it would indicate that people are moving back into Memphis core neighborhoods and that...
Read MoreTracking Down The Public Benefit In Faster PILOTs
The EDGE board and its president, Reid Dulberger, have shown admirable restraint in the face of special interests calling for them to expand the tax freeze program that is...
Read MoreTennessee’s Upside Down Tax Structure
Awhile back, the lede in the New York Times said: “When it comes to taxes closes to home, the less you earn, the harder you’re hit.” These were the results of an Institute on...
Read MoreTennessee Legislators Deserve Their Catfish Mascot
The catfish is the Tennessee state commercial fish, and it’s the perfect mascot for our bottom-feeding Legislature. Time after time, just when we think it can’t go any lower, it always manages...
Read MoreGetting Neighborhoods To The Front Of The Line
It’s a mantra heard for years by Memphis neighborhoods: We’d love to help but we don’t have any money and times are tough. And yet,...
Read MoreFlashback: Six Recommendations For The Future
This is the latest edition of our feature that takes a look back at blog posts 10 years ago, so this month we’re flashing back to April, 2006. The topics that month includes posts about the study funded by Memphis and Shelby...
Read MoreLooking Ahead, Not Backwards, For Economic Growth Inspiration
Note: There are renewed conversations about the ways to spark more economic growth in Memphis, but often they turn into...
Read MoreParking Answers Depend On Zoo Caging Its Obstinacy
Now, that wasn’t really so hard, was it? Now that the Overton Park Conservancy has done the work that more appropriately should already have been done by City...
Read MoreRefusing To Shrink From the Facts About Deannexation
Ten days ago, in the wake of the Tennessee Legislature’s decision to send the deannexation bill back for more study, we blogged that City of Memphis should begin a process to...
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 →