Our list of great city mayors always starts with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.A geologist and restaurateur by profession, he’s been a remarkable mayor who built record approval ratings throughout his entire region and invested...
Read MoreSimply put, there is no basis for the Shelby County Board of Commissioners’ approving county government’s gift of 140 lots to Buehler Homes.It is simply wrong on so many levels. Politically, it’s essentially the majority...
Read MoreHere’s our advice to Memphis Councilman Shea Flinn:When confronted with the rantings of Councilman Joe Brown, just say: Councilman, I simply refuse to go into mental combat with an unarmed man.Those are the immortal words used...
Read MoreMemphis needed a mandate.Yes, Mayor-elect A C Wharton got it, but it was the city that needed it.We’ve been limping along for eight years or so with no sense that we had anyone in charge, someone with a compelling vision and the...
Read MoreDetroit is in the news again with Time Magazine launching a bureau of sorts from the city. But to get a real local’s perspective, we’ll talk with Katy Locker and David Egner of the Hudson Webber Foundation. It...
Read MoreIf you ever wonder why so many of us are passionate about the proposed Mud Island skate park, you can get a sense of it with this video.
Read MoreIt was in the late Sixties when our dorm walls bore a poster: “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came.”In those heady days of political activism, it was hard to imagine that the poster today should say: “Suppose they held an...
Read MoreCaught in a brutal vise of too much poverty, shrinking density and a broken tax structure, the next person to head up City of Memphis Government may need to be an alchemist, not just a mayor.There are so many troubling trends...
Read MoreThe American Planning Association has posted its 10 great streets as part of its annual Great Places in America project.Check out these 10 great streets, and let us know what Memphis street should be on this list. Or, give us...
Read MoreOne of the things the new mayor needs to do is just make people believe again in good government.That was the observation by our friend and colleague Cardell Orrin in today’s Commercial Appeal. He accurately identified the most...
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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 →