There’s not much that can be done to the city and county websites that would do any damage. They are the digital equivalents of a three car pile-up on the interstate. Well, in the county’s case, it’s more like a five car...
Read MoreHere’s the real problem with the appointment of the new Shelby County Mayor.It’s not the alliance between a couple of Republican commissioners to usher in the era of the Joe Ford Administration. It’s not the parody of leadership...
Read MoreHere we go again.It seems that Memphis economic development officials have an addiction to tax freezes that the Betty Ford Clinic couldn’t cure.Meanwhile, they have an obsession with North Mississippi that Sigmund Freud couldn’t...
Read MoreThree recent reports we’ve been reading are about social promotion of students, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO’s) and airports, all subjects that should be of interest to Memphis. In a study about social promotion of...
Read MoreSmart City is talking with people who have discovered new ways of attracting and retaining a creative community.First we’ll speak with Helen Johnson and Josh McManus. They lead a group called CreateHere, which focuses on...
Read MoreIn light of our post and your discussion about the D’s and F’s environment that most city school students come from, “Parenting, Language Development and School Readiness: The Importance of Early Brain...
Read MoreOften, it seems Memphis took Groucho Marx’s self-deprecating attitude and overlaid it on the entire city. Paraphrasing the comedian, Memphians don’t want to belong to any city that will accept them as members.It’s a lack of...
Read MoreIt’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 the Tennessee Department of Education report card.After all, that’s exactly what we as a city...
Read MoreAt a time when cities were making investments to improve their downtowns, City of Memphis put our downtown up for adoption.More accurately, City Hall left downtown like a waif in a basket on the doorstep of the Center City...
Read MoreThis week on Smart City,Ed Glaeser is our first guest, and he is always asking the question, “What makes cities work?” He is a prolific researcher at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, and he has...
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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 →