It’s common in a dysfunctional family for people to gang up on the family member who wants to make things better. That’s probably how the Metro Charter Commission and Rebuild Government feel these days. In return for suggesting...
Read MoreMemphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash’s announcement that 50 city schools should be closed was right on target. It also hints at a much larger problem: Too many City of Memphis facilities are in the wrong places. They...
Read MoreWe wish we could get excited about the latest big tax freeze – this time to Cargill. The truth is that we might force some excitement if we ever got even a hint that someone somewhere sometime talk about how to wean us from...
Read MoreIt’s a favorite refrain these days of voters outside Memphis: If only Memphis would quit electing incompetent elected officials, the members of the white flight brigade would be willing to vote for consolidation. Of course, it’s...
Read MoreWin, lose or drawn-out (depending on federal court), the consolidation campaign has been good for Memphis and Shelby County. Yes, there’s been an abundance of hyperbole, posturing and fiction, but it’s hard to remember a time in...
Read MoreThe grand experiment that began 34 years ago to reinvent Shelby County Government as an urban government is coming to a close. It began with such promise on a clear, unseasonably warm New Year’s Day in 1976 when Shelby County’s...
Read MoreWith all the reports and research that we read, it takes a lot to stagger us. But that’s exactly what the report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York did when it concluded that our peer cities are Shreveport, Monroe,...
Read MoreWe may talk a good game about talent, but it’s time that at the top of our leaders’ priorities is to make Memphis a city of choice for college students. We may tend to lean on the ropes and take punch after punch from study...
Read MoreIt seems like so many of the people in the consolidation debate have simply defaulted to their kneejerk settings. That said, the unholy alliance between the suburban town mayors and urban Democratic Party members is surprising...
Read MoreFinally, Tennessee school districts are getting the truth about their students’ performance. It took long enough. Unfortunately, there have been parents whose children have gone all the way to graduation with the State of...
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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 →