Our 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...
Read MoreMemphis and Shelby County need an intervention, and it will take the bully pulpits of the mayors to lead it. Like all interventions, this one begins by facing facts: * The federal government describes Memphis as “severely...
Read MoreWe wrote last week about downtown examples of urban indifference – the tall weeds in the median on Riverside Drive, the amateurish parking lot gates at Tom Lee Park, and the obstacle course on the sidewalk on Riverside Drive...
Read MoreOne of the interesting things about state government’s attitude toward Memphis is that the hostility is no respecter of party lines. Both Democratic and Republican governors manage to treat Memphis with equal shabbiness....
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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 →