Research has shown that effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet our school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts, not professionals. In this environment, excellence goes unrecognized and poor...
Read MoreContrary to the opinion of many economic development officials, tax freezes are not an indicator of success for Memphis. Rather, they are clear indications of our failure to create the more competitive city that we need for a...
Read MoreMemphis got screwed again, and the culprit was a familiar one – state government.Back when the promises were made that the economic stimulus spigots would be turned on in Washington, Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton joined the...
Read MoreTo continue the theme that we began yesterday on what it will take for Memphis to recruit the kind of candidate that can become a great mayor, here’s the abbreviated advice from one of our favorites, Denver’s John...
Read MoreIt seems a good time to reprise a slightly edited post from July 5, 2006, which was also the June, 2006, City Journal column in Memphis magazine:This is the golden age of great city mayors.In Chicago, Richard Daley transformed...
Read MoreKerry Hayes, always a wise observer of the Memphis scene, wrote some sound advice on his Facebook page about the post-Herenton era:Remember: Mayor Herenton’s departure is an opportunity, not a solution.Remember: the...
Read MoreThere’re many reasons that we respect Cindy and Kevin Brewer. They are the kind of talented people that we need in this city – young, entreprenuerial, positive. In their work and in their civic activities, they are...
Read MoreMemphis made a top 25 list, but unfortunately, it wasn’t one we wanted to be on.We had two neighborhoods in the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the U.S. – #11 (Bellevue Boulevard/Lamar Avenue) and # 7 (Warford St/Mount...
Read MoreIt seems that a lot of people won’t believe Memphis Mayor Willie W. Herenton is really leaving City Hall until he turns in his keys July 10.Such is the mystique of unpredictability that surrounds him. Although reports of a...
Read MoreIt was a match made in heaven. The worst Tennessee Legislature in memory advised on charter schools law by the specious superintendent of Shelby County Schools, Bobby Webb. Fortunately, in the midst of its gun fetish...
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