How Smart Is Memphis?
Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst — collective brainpower. “More than sports prowess or...
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Notices From Academia
We wanted to mention a couple of things going on that might interest you.One, this semester’s students of the Urban Revitalization Planning class at the University of Memphis are producing a new blog about Memphis. It is...
Read MoreWe’re Looking For Myths That Need To Change
In response to our post yesterday about the myths that chain us to old ways of thinking and block new solutions, we got responses with readers’ own myths. As a result, we’re asking for you to give us the myths that...
Read MoreJob 1 For New Mayor: Blowing Up Old Myths
Memphis is a mythic city.There are of course the mythic musicians and entrepreneurs who created our greatest exports to the world – from B.B. to Elvis to Chilton and from Kemmons Wilson to Pitt Hyde to Fred Smith. And yet, there...
Read MoreGetting The Focus Right: It’s About Cities
This may surprise you but we’ve got to say it: we’re tired of hearing about the paramount importance of regions and how regionalism is the road to a successful future for Memphis.And we admit that we were some of the earliest...
Read MoreThis Week On Smart City: Slow Food And Smart Farming
This week, Smart City is talking about food: How we grow it and what we make out of it. Featured this week is Memphis’ own Pete Nelson. First, the Slow Food movement is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating that...
Read MoreTransitions: Three Great Men
We come today to praise great men – three, to be precise.Two of them, Tiffany Bingham and Vasco Smith, died earlier this week. The third, Jeff Nesin, announced last week that he would step down as president of Memphis College of...
Read MoreSkating Toward A Better Future
With the Mud Island Land Use Study – Phase Three Public Meetings wrapping up this week, there may be questions about the final recommendations, but there can be no questions any longer about the potential of a skate park...
Read MoreBuehler Homes Taxes County Commissioners
Every once in awhile something makes its way to the agenda of Memphis City Council or Shelby County Board of Commissioners that simply defies imagination.The resolution on Monday’s board of commissioners’ agenda to give 140...
Read MoreWalking In Memphis (The North Riverside Version)
In response to our post earlier this week about the uninviting welcome that greets visitors to Memphis from the Riverside exit off I-40, a reader sent his photographic take on that stretch of grim landscape.He emailed:...
Read MoreLatest Bill Day Cartoon
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 →