Smart City explores the stubborn link between race and poverty in America. Professor Pedro Noguera has written a book about the cultural, societal and personal factors that cause young black and Hispanic males to run afoul of...
Read MoreHere’s the hypothesis:Tennessee’s liberal annexation law means that Memphis – unlike many similarly-sized cities across the U.S. – is not landlocked by small towns, and because of it, its population has been growing or...
Read MoreMemphis is a shrinking city.We’re not talking about the slight decrease in the raw population numbers since 2000. Rather, we’re talking about the practical impact of significant population losses in the traditional city –...
Read MoreWe’re planning a big party to celebrate the victory in the Tennessee Legislature for all of us who hold our guns as close as our families. It will be held upon the close of the legislative session, and we hope you will bring...
Read MoreMemphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton sent a stern note last week to the Memphis City Council that said its members need to restore full funding for Memphis City Schools.It prompted memories here of the late Jesse Turner Sr., the...
Read MoreThis week on Smart City we’re looking ahead for a view of the city in the year 2050. Maureen McAvey of the Urban Land Institute joins us to talk about what the city will look like 40 years from now, and what changes we...
Read MoreSomehow, it seemed appropriate that the sadness that enveloped us when the historic First Methodist Church burned down returned and intensified when another downtown landmark, architect Jack Tucker, left us April 5.No one in...
Read MoreThere are those who are dismissive of Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton’s media skills.From where we’re sitting, he’s the master. On a day when FedEx founder Fred Smith ventured into the halls of city government, the mayor...
Read MorePerhaps, the main lesson from the COGIC move of its convention to St. Louis isn’t that we took the saints for granted. It just might be that more to the point, we’re guilty of taking our tourism industry for granted.In recent...
Read MoreaIt was one of those weeks that just wears on our souls.That’s why we’re hoping that things will be better this week. It would almost have to be.There was the expected: approval by the gun nuts in the Tennessee Legislature...
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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 →