Here’s something we don’t get to say too much: city and county governments were absolutely, completely right.We thought this as we listened to the Saturday morning discussion at the “Inbound for Memphis: Speeding Toward I-269”...
Read MoreWhat we need up here might be an engineer from down under.Or at least that’s what we thought when we read about Sydney, Australia’s impressive water harvesting system. Its efforts to create water retention facilities for water...
Read MoreWhile the jury is still out on whether school districts’ police forces are worth the investments, Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash is moving on with his foregone verdict that his district needs one.It’s hard to...
Read MoreIt’s easy to understand the general frustration that exists about one more plan being undertaken downtown, this one about the future of Mud Island. We often seem so obsessed in Memphis with studying and planning and less...
Read MoreFor seven years, I walked out to my driveway each morning with a knot in the pit of my stomach. The morning bout of angst may have been bad for me, but it was good for Memphis. I was a reporter for the Memphis Press-Scimitar and...
Read MoreSkateboarding Memphians Kris Gurley wrote this guest post:I would like to talk to you today about part of our city that I (and many others) think has tremendous potential for our city: Mud Island.How many times do you go to Mud...
Read MoreOne operative in the Tennessee Capitol frequently refers to the Legislature as the Land of Oz, and if that is so, Germantown Senator Paul Stanley is the tin man.He needs to find a heart.More to the point, he needs to go on a...
Read MoreAfter 20 years of talking about it, it’s likely that there will soon be a single source funding plan for public education.It’s a landmark moment for two reasons.It is the first substantive action to inject fairness into a tax...
Read MoreFrom the “we’re supposed to believe this is a coincidence” department:Faced with the pressing business of hiring a new superintendent, with addressing the concerns of a federal judge that it’s engaged in separate but equal...
Read MoreThe Urban Omnibus is a multi-media collection of insights from journalists, scholars, architects, artists and citizens on the built environment of New York City. We’ll speak with Cassim Shepard, who is the project...
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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 →