Let 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...
Read MoreTim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, one of the world’s leading computer book publishers and technology consultancies for open source, open standards and sensible intellectual property laws....
Read MoreWith so much wrong in the world and so much need in Memphis, it makes us sleep soundly at night knowing that some Memphis legislators and the Shelby County drug court judge are spending their time working to make Spice illegal....
Read MoreIf Memphis is serious about economic development, it has to get more serious about entrepreneurs. In a recent policy brief for Harvard University, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr point to the close correlation between...
Read MoreIt’s a teachable moment for Memphis. But it may be squandered because of failing grades given in deportment to Memphis City Schools and Memphis City Council, aided and abetted by the class troublemaker, a news media that always...
Read MoreCan we now turn the page – not one in Forbes magazine of course – and quit talking about the miserable cities rankings? We’re becoming like the guy who knows he’s having an affair so he continually tells his friends how happily...
Read MorePolitics 101 calls for politicians to solemnize each year’s budget hearings with the pronouncement that there’s never been one that’s more challenging and difficult. This year, it just happens to be true. Troubling trends that...
Read MoreMemphis City Schools says it may cut funding to charter schools. So what else is new? The district’s been shortchanging the charter schools for years. Because of it, we’ve always found it perfectly logical that Memphis City...
Read MoreIt’s been nine years since Richard Florida, who had not yet published his seminal book on the “creative class,” was the first guest on the inaugural Smart City program, eight years since he advised our colleague...
Read MoreWe’ve received this email from our reporter friends at The Commercial Appeal who it seems have been stonewalled by management for way too long: Greetings, Several years ago, you signed a petition in support of workers at...
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