Standing at the foot of Union Avenue, two couples from Indiana are surveying the Mississippi River when one of the men said: “I’ve been here four times for Elvis Week. I absolutely love this city, but it doesn’t look much like...
Read MoreThere are times when it’s hard to tell if Memphis and Shelby County know that they’re part of a global economy. After all, we seem much more obsessed with competing with North Mississippi than with Europe or Asia, and when we...
Read MoreThe Commercial Appeal reports that Electrolux has hired its first 374 employees. Here’s the tale of the tape: $188 million — Local and state subsidies and tax freezes for new Memphis plant $1.2 billion – North America...
Read MoreOur good friend and a genuine Memphis talent, Christopher Reyes, posted information on his website about the Memphis Manifesto. He handled all the marketing, and as you would expect, it was inventive, creative, and clever. You...
Read MoreTen years ago, Memphis was ground zero for discussions by workers connected to creative industries, and they had the goal of developing a call to action for cities wanting to attract and retain them. It was called the Memphis...
Read MoreThere was a former Shelby County mayor who often said when his government was asked to get involved in annexation controversies: “We don’t have a dog in that hunt. Regardless of what’s decided, they’re still be Shelby County...
Read MoreThanks to Ashli Blow, New Media Content Producer at WMC-TV and its Your Neighborhood websites, for spotlighting the importance of 25-34 year-old talent to Memphis’s future: A handful of young adults in Memphis takes...
Read MoreFrom National Journal: The mayor of Chattanooga wants his city to become the technology hub of the Southeast—even if that’s not the image most Americans would assign to this mid-sized city along the Tennessee River. But...
Read MoreWe interrupt our blog posts – about the failure of our economic development and about the need for a comprehensive plan – to post some comments from two people who are precisely the target demographic that we need to...
Read MoreIn our last post, we spotlighted the need for Memphis and Shelby County to have a serious, creative economic development plan grounded in goal of competing in the global economy of the future than an economy anchored in the...
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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 →