There’s been speculation in the school consolidation campaign about the reason city taxpayers starting funding schools. Some “county” school officials have suggested that Memphis began funding schools because it wanted to...
Read MoreAFSCME should be ashamed. This week, it mailed to thousands of Memphis households an anti-consolidation piece that degraded the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In attempting to draw a specious connection that said...
Read MoreOne of the best, most insightful commentators about Memphis, in our opinion, is John Lawrence, and we are fortunate that he shares his opinions and insights with us on this blog on occasion. John is an Executive Management...
Read MoreNobody has been more critical than we have about our local addiction to tax freezes for economic development. Nobody has been more frustrated about the $50 million in taxes that have been waived routinely for decades to...
Read MorePreviously posted April 3, 2009: My morning commute delivers me many days to downtown Memphis from the Riverside Drive exit of I-40. It’s the antithesis of the experience that greets me two miles away south when I enter downtown...
Read MoreThere is often interesting discussion taking place between commenters on our posts and that was certainly the case in the last couple of days in response to the post about I-269 creating even more economic segregation for the...
Read MoreIt’s a tale of two cities, and only a short drive is needed to come face-to-face with the telling. In Nashville, the drive takes you to Williamson County, the 11th wealthiest county in the U.S., with a median family income...
Read MoreThe reason we are so exorcised about I-269 and other sprawl-inducing highway projects are because they deepen the economic segregation that holds back Memphis’ progress. Memphis is #1 in economic segregation among the largest 50...
Read MoreMarie Sell of Memphis City Schools and Doug Imig of University of Memphis have written a brief that all of us should read, especially in light of the ongoing discussion about public education in Memphis: In Memphis, Children...
Read MoreWe’re reprising this 2007 post in light of predictions about an uptick in migration to North Mississippi: While we always consider Business Perspectives – a publication of University of Memphis’ Bureau of Business and...
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