Yesterday’s vote by Memphis City Council’s budget committee may have been a political master stroke, but more to the point, it was a lesson in Civics 101.A day earlier, Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton had said in...
Read MoreApparently, Tennessee Rep. Curry Todd took too many hard fouls to the head during his glory days as a hardwood phenom.We’re not sure what excuse Sen. Paul Stanley has, unless it’s been hit too many times over the head with the...
Read MoreCoverage by the news media about the passage of the anti-discrimination resolution by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners suggested to some that yesterday’s vote was a Pyrrhic victory.That’s not true. The shift...
Read MoreWe have seen the underbelly of college sports and it is our own. Weeks have passed since our messy divorce from University of Memphis basketball coach John Calipari, and he got players, secretaries, assistant coaches, Chinese...
Read MoreMemphis has no margin for error.Because of it, decisions like the one today on a county anti-discrimination ordinance are much more than parochial controversies. To the contrary, all that we do now is amplified and magnified,...
Read MoreChange is in the air and we’ve got the numbers to prove it on Smart City.At a time when tax revenues are declining and city budgets are strained, our first guest has a modest proposal that could produce big dividends for...
Read MoreA week ago, we wrote a post about the new, improved bridge design created by Shelby County Government, and some of you suggested a better relationship between the bridge and the guard rails.To follow up, we asked County Engineer...
Read MoreNo religious denomination acted more often as apologists for segregationists during the civil rights movement than preachers in the Southern Baptist Convention.It was of course a time of all-white churches but none was more...
Read MoreIt’s tempting to dismiss Shelby County Commissioner Wyatt Bunker and his fundamentalist preacher friends as merely the latest incarnation of the flat earth society.Surely, it’s hard to identify a group in recent memory that has...
Read MoreThere’s an old Courthouse adage: It may be legal, but it still isn’t right.It’s a sentiment shared by federal court observers – and some say by Judge Bernice Donald herself – in the wake of the appellate court ruling that...
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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 →