Branding a city is hard, and although so many cities do it poorly, that does little to discourage cities like ours from continuing to try to do it right. Since we can remember, Memphis has flirted with branding, but...
Read MoreLast year, we wrote a series of posts about great mayors because Memphis has never had one. It seems like an apt time to revisit it to see how things are going in City Hall. Here’s the post: With A C Wharton now in the...
Read MoreIf Memphis was an actor, it would be looking to be cast against type. We’re like the actor who has only played light comedy roles that takes on a casting call as a serial killer just to shake up his image and how the public sees...
Read MoreKen Hoover is powerful witness to the central message of his campaign for Shelby County Schools Board member. An involved parent on the board really would make a difference, and Mr. Hoover has children in county elementary,...
Read MoreWhere are the statesmen and stateswomen? At what point does personal political ambition become so overpowering that a person is willing to sacrifice the facts and put the community on the back burner? There are plenty of...
Read MoreUnion rhetoric to the contrary, outsourcing is as American as apple pie. About 80% of all U.S. cities outsource services, and while politicos were surprised that Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s entrée into this area targeted trash...
Read MoreCity Hall has been off the grid for 25 years and our city has paid the price. It appears things are finally turning around. It’s been a long time since Memphis has been in national discussions about policy, government reform and...
Read MoreContinued from yesterday. In the past, economic development programs like Memphis 2005 – the much heralded answer to solve our structural economic problems and to revive our economy at the close of the 20th century – have...
Read MoreThe Memphis economy has reached the moment of truth. Languishing in the lower rungs of the economic indicators that matter, we have reached the point where we either snap out of it or we sink into the abyss with Detroit and...
Read MoreLast year about this time, Ben Self, co-founder of the company that led the digital part of the Obama campaign that transformed political campaigns as we have known them, laid out a glimpse into Memphis if it becomes the first...
Read More
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 →