Where 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 MoreNothing is quite as confusing as government financing, and that’s never been truer than now. There seems to be big numbers every where – the $30 million for The Pyramid, there’s the idea of a new convention center likely to cost...
Read MoreWe guess we’re cursed with 20-20 hindsight. That’s why we don’t automatically sign on to Congressman Steve Cohen’s rant about the Tea Party. Put simply, we subscribe today just as much as we did in the Sixties to the words of...
Read MoreOver the years, the biggest mistakes made by Memphis City Council are the ones made when its members aim low. And it appears that’s just what they are thinking about doing now by not finishing Beale Street Landing right. We...
Read MoreLet the pandering begin. Shelby County Schools Board Chairman David Pickler has now officially begun his campaign, and as reliably as the Mississippi River flooding each year, his brand of divisive “we versus they” politics is...
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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 →