Memphis City Council – the Rodney Dangerfield of local politics – does so much right and gets so little credit for it. Bill Morrison is the architect of this year’s budget resolution. Jim Strickland pushes for more cuts in...
Read MoreMemphis Mayor AC Wharton is right when he says that the new Unified Development Code (UDC) making its way through legislative approvals is “the beginning, not the end, in creating the kind of city and neighborhoods we want.”...
Read MoreInterim Mayor Joe Ford’s billboards say that he is the “People’s Voice” and that may indeed be the case judging from his apparent lack of basic information about government and public policy. Once upon a time, one of Memphis’s...
Read MoreMemphians regularly don’t recognize what is distinctive about us and what we are doing right unless we get outside validation. We should be getting that validation today in spades. Our own Ballet Memphis is featured prominently...
Read MoreTo wrap up what ended up as a week posting about education, we reprise a post from November 11, 2009: It’s nothing short of hypocritical for us to wring our hands over the D’s and F’s given to Memphis City Schools students in...
Read MoreUPDATE: Newsweek has admitted that it blew it, and White Station High School is now #1,090 out of the top 1,600 high schools in the entire U.S. The written statement from Jay Mathews, Researcher and Contributing Editor with...
Read MoreIf urban school districts like ours had a dollar every time somebody said, “Children are our future,” they’d never have a funding problem. Unfortunately for these districts, Americans are long on platitudes and short on...
Read MoreMemphis Mayor A C Wharton has an ambitious agenda that he laid out during his campaign, but the goal he set recently surpasses all of them for its audaciousness: To make Memphis one of the country’s best-run cities. That is of...
Read MoreThere may be other cities that have done more in the past to improve their schools, but if you’re looking for ground zero for school reform for the future, it’s hard to think of a place more qualified than Memphis. We were...
Read MoreThe Tennessee Legislature – the political equivalent of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight – has done it again. This time, it’s in playing the role that it seems to relish most – Big Brother – as its members ignore the advice...
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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 →