It’s customary for optimism to accompany the election of a new mayor – either city or county – because of the hope that he and his mayoral counterpart will be able to work together to create a leap of progress for the community....
Read MoreThere’s one favorite response by “county” voters opposing a new government for our community We don’t want Memphis coming out here. It’s a glimpse into how complete the denial is about the interlocking relationship between the...
Read More“Every system is perfectly designed to achieve exactly the results it achieves.” Dr. Don Berwick may have been talking about the health care system, but he could have just as easily been talking about economic...
Read MoreOur rabbi, Micah Greenstein of Temple Israel, delivered this statement yesterday as one of the religious leaders speaking for the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance before Memphis City Council: As a fomer President of the...
Read MoreWe are losing record numbers of jobs. The number of business prospects has flatlined. The number of applications for public incentives can be counted on one hand. So, faced with these brutal facts of life and the need for...
Read MoreSo, I’m sitting on the couch at home minding my own business when my wife of 40 years complains that I’m not pulling my weight around the house. There’s no reason, she says, that I can’t be more help. Wisely, I apologize but...
Read MoreEconomic development in our community – in the midst of a 40,000 job loss streak – isn’t as much a question of who’s running things or how it’s structured as getting the priorities right. And it’s clear that these should be...
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 energy...
Read MoreSo this is the 9-1-1 “system” that the town mayors defend so vigorously every time it’s suggested that there’s a better way to handle emergency service calls in our community. Anytime the Memphis and Shelby County Metro Charter...
Read MoreThe Memphis region is being whipsawed by unrelenting, and potentially debilitating, trends – economic segregation and income out-migration – that are pulling apart the fabric and threatening the future of our community. That’s...
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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 →