Author: Smart City Memphis

Nancy Coffee is president and CEO of Leadership Academy:”The state of the economy calls for action bold and swift.” The remark by Barack Obama in his inaugural address is one that resonates with the mission and the work of...

Beverly Robertson is executive director of National Civil Rights Museum:It is my hope that we can galvanize a substantial base of young people to assume leadership roles in this community and become engaged in the political...

Anthony Siracusa is the guiding force behind Revolutions Community Bicycle Shop:My dream is a city with flocks of bicycle commuters riding to work each morning. I dream of schoolchildren riding with their parents in to school,...

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,...