Sadly, we’re not surprised that stimulus money spent here on transportation is more of the same – unfocused, unstrategic and unconnected.Earlier this year, the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) approved projects...
Read MoreWe were excited to see this department in City Hall – Office of Strategic Customer Services.Unfortunately, it’s found in the city government of Dallas and not here, but the office there manages a program that seems like an...
Read MoreCaught in a brutal vise of too many kids, too little density and a broken tax structure, the next people to head up local government here may not need to be mayors, but alchemists.There are so many troubling trends taking place...
Read MoreWhat’s the right habitat for for nurturing and hatching new ideas? John Howkins has spent a lifetime answering that question. His earlier work documented the rise of the creative economy and his latest book,...
Read MoreWe are repeating a post from June, 2007, whose point we thought we had moved beyond:It is an aphorism – though none the less true – that the most segregated hour in Memphis is at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning.Surely it’s equally...
Read MoreWe’ve been tempted to organize a guerilla bike lane striping movement. While the city engineer’s office treats it like it’s virtually impossible to get this done, what if each of us just went out in front of...
Read MoreAnthony Siracusa is peddling, or pedaling, Revolutions abroad these days.Literally.As the founder of Revolutions Community Bike Shop eight years ago at the age of 17, he’s been an ebullient advocate for cycling as the vehicle...
Read MoreToday, we are speechless. We find ourselves suffering from a exhausting case of drama fatigue from the swirling events in City Hall. There’s really not much else we can say, except that it’s time for a fresh start....
Read MoreShelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz continues to wage a war for truth in government taxation that would make Don Quixote proud.Or perhaps more aptly, he feels like the Amish shunned from the community for talking too much to...
Read MoreThere was a tree in my backyard that’s looked dead for some time, but I loathe to cut down anything, so until it became obvious that not even one small leaf would appear on it, I was content to leave it alone.But finally, it...
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