Author: Smart City Memphis

As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.

AC Wharton is Mayor of Shelby County:To use an old phrase, the end of the year 2008 and the beginning of the year of 2009 represent the worst of times and the best of times. It is the worst of times in terms of our country’s...

Shea Flinn is a Memphis City Councilman:The word change was beaten into the ground, dug up, and beaten into the ground again in 2008. But we as a city and a country did go through a transformation. For me this was beautifully...

Greg Thompson is director of education for Hyde Family Foundations:“To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” – Franklin Roosevelt...

As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.

David Williams is president of Leadership Memphis:I think the problem most people have with developing a list of hopes for Memphis is feeling overwhelmed with the potential length of such a list. For those that see the Memphis...

Linn Sitler is the president of the Memphis and Shelby County Film Commission:A resolution? One of my new year’s resolutions is to — as Knox Phillips, bearer of Memphis’ biggest heart — told me years ago,...

Aaron Shafer is a researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the driving force behind Skatelife Memphis:My hope is that this is the year that we stop pointing fingers at each other and rid ourselves of a toxic...

Brad Leon heads up Teach For America in Memphis:Every time Barack Obama said, “Yes we can,” during his presidential campaign, and especially on election night, I was reminded of why I became an educator. Teaching in New Orleans,...