The economic impact report on the Memphis Redbirds by University of Memphis’ Sparks Center for Business and Economic contained some persuasive information about the importance of Triple-A baseball in Memphis – $24 million...
Read MoreWhen it comes to the Tourism Development Zone, it seems that the Shelby County Board of Commissioners is on the verge of gagging on a gnat while swallowing a camel. But when you mix in the opportunity to make political hay with...
Read MoreNothing is quite as confusing as government financing, and that’s never been truer than now. There seems to be big numbers everywhere, and judging from public debate and comments on The Commercial Appeal articles, there is big,...
Read MoreDavid Pickler is like the firebug who sets a fire and then returns while it is fully ablaze to criticize how the fire department is handling it. These days, he has begun a campaign to rewrite the history of the school merger to...
Read MoreSusan Adler Thorp, commentator on WREG-TV’s Informed Sources, put it beautifully when the discussion turned to the City of Memphis’ leverage in the proposal for it to buy AutoZone Park. She said the New York hedge fund that is...
Read MoreThe sound defeat of a referendum to increase the local option sales tax rate to pay for much-needed Pre-K programs for Memphis children is a reminder of how easy it is to position almost any issue as a fight between the haves...
Read MoreThere is no longer any argument about the value of Pre-K in Memphis and Shelby County. The challenge now is to fund it adequately so that every child can benefit from it. A year ago this month, The Urban Child Institute wrote...
Read MoreNew research from a Vanderbilt study released a couple of months ago. supports national and local studies that preschool helps children succeed in school. The study, still in its interim stage, reflects many of the same...
Read MoreWhen we look to cities that are moving in the right direction these days, it’s almost inevitable that there was a point in time when a strategic decision or investment was made that changed their trajectories for the better. The...
Read MoreThere’s so much under way in Memphis that’s exciting in the way that they are creating new economic engines and adding new quality of life assets, but often, people in neighborhoods out of the mainstream – those under serious...
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