It’s that time of the year: time for the annual political gamesmanship by Memphis City Schools directed at charter schools. They’re called charter schools because they have a signed contract with the school...
Read MoreIf you need something to remind you that “we’re representing Memphis,” there’s nothing better than this one: “Don’t talk about my city.” A new song by local legend Booker T. Jones takes...
Read MoreHere’s one of the most important – and disturbing – statistics about Memphis. For every child in Early Head Start (or the city schools’ equivalent), there are 31 children who aren’t. In the wake of the valuable citywide...
Read MoreThe most exciting things happening in Memphis these days aren’t in the halls of power or among the power brokers. Instead, they are produced by a burst of entrepreneurship unseen here in 30 years However, this time, the...
Read MoreWe do not have budget problems in this state and country because we spend too much on poor people. We do not have budget problems because we spend too much for teachers. We do not have budget problems because we spend too much...
Read MoreCaught in a brutal vise of too many kids, too little density, the capital costs of sprawl, and a broken tax structure, the people who head up local government here may not need to be mayors, but alchemists. There are troubling...
Read MoreAnytime there is a choice in government between secrecy and transparency, it should be a no-brainer. That’s why we hope that the Shelby County Legislative Delegation opposes a proposal to close some public records so companies...
Read MoreWe can forgive taxpayers for their confusion about tax policy and tax uses when discussions at Memphis City Council do more to obfuscate than illuminate. Based on The Commercial Appeal’s Amos Maki reliably accurate...
Read More“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” It’s the punch line to a hoary joke, but it has special meaning to Memphians with ambitions for their city to become a film capital. Things seemed to be working well until...
Read MoreTo the subject of today’s post – that the most exciting things in Memphis are happening at the grassroots level – we were reading Christopher Reyes’ Mopey Ninja blog not only makes this point often but...
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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 →