Memphis: I Love The Way That Rolls Off My Lips
In the wake of our recent post, Memphis: All Things Are Possible, we asked readers to submit how they’d describe the city as we know it. Following are two we received, but if you’d like to...
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Norris Paves Over Another Good Haslam Idea
Once again, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has another good idea that’s being shot down by Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris and the governor’s own political party. This time, it’s his proposal to raise the gas tax to pay for...
Read MoreClosing Out Downtown’s Morris Era
If, as most of us agree, the purpose of life is to leave things better than we found them, Paul Morris should be justifiably proud of his five years at the helm of the Downtown Memphis Commission. When he became president of the...
Read MoreFishing For Downtown Vibrancy And Economic Growth
It feels like we’ve been here before, but this time, downtown Memphis has to make the most of it. Despite decades of concerted attention and hundreds of millions of dollars in investments and waived taxes for downtown, vibrancy...
Read MoreChoices Made Memphis What It Is Today
One of our favorite aphorisms is “every system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it gets.” Memphis is just such a system, and that’s why it’s surprising when the news...
Read MoreMemphis’ Budget Challenge Is Structural
In our last post, we wrote about the way that public safety costs dominate the City of Memphis budget to the detriment of services like parks, libraries, and community centers...
Read MorePolice Budget Arms Race Leaves Little Money For Other City Services
The new fiscal year for the City of Memphis began last month and Memphis continues to be public-safety poor. Budget deliberations by the Memphis City Council...
Read MoreJoining Hands For The Trip To The Promised Land
Few phrases are as overused today as “defining event,” but it’s never as accurate as when Boomers look back at the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was as large an influence as our own families....
Read MoreGot A “Memphis As You Know It” Submission?
In the wake of our recent post, Memphis: All Things Are Possible, we were asked how we’d describe the city as we know it. The following is what we wrote, but that...
Read MoreThe Big Win Took Place Before The Griz Took The Floor
It’s difficult, taking into account the shapeshifting that now transforms the Memphis persona for about half of each year, to remember how improbable it looked in 2001 that the Grizzlies would ever come here. There was the push...
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 →