They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. That’s Hosea 8:7 and it’s a verse familiar to the small group of African-American ministers who this week sang Kumbaya with leaders of a county school district who have repeatedly made...
Read MoreThe job of the executive director of the Metropolitan Planning Organization for our community is vacant, and we are dreaming of how nice it would be if we had someone like the one in Nashville. He actually feels that his job is...
Read MoreCEOs for Cities launched the US Initiative for one reason: We continue to build too many of our communities – physically, economically, and socially – on an outdated set of beliefs. This is expensive, wasteful and puts us way...
Read MoreGive a Minute is no less than an ambitious attempt to reinvent public participation in America. Starting in Chicago over the past few weeks and then moving on to San Jose, Memphis, New York and other cities next year, the...
Read MoreWe are strongly for the consolidation of our schools into a Shelby County Schools district that deserves to have that name (it does in fact serve all of Shelby County), and we think the odds for the city schools board to vote in...
Read MoreSuburban politicians, Chambers of Commerce and anti-consolidation firebrands are like the pyromaniac who starts a fire and then shows up later to say that we all need to work together to put it out. After years of pursuing...
Read MoreIn light of conversations that seem to be occurring all over Memphis, we’re reprising this post from February of this year: Possibly the only thing more disconcerting than the self-loathing that is such a regular feature...
Read MoreOver the past few years, the raging debate in economic development has been over whether cities should be cool or uncool. Should cities pursue “the creative economy” by going after arts, culture, creative research &...
Read MoreThere are PILOTs and then there are PILOTs. We all know about the oft-used kind that waives about $50 million a year in property taxes for companies promising jobs and construction. Less know are PILOTs paid by utility...
Read MoreShelby County Commissioner Terry Roland – who apparently has no ability to self-edit – has now suggested that his part of Shelby County should secede and become part of another county. While we’re not quite sure why Tipton...
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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 →