Author: Smart City Memphis

Our friend, Richard Thompson, at Mediaverse has an interesting post about a rebuttal from some well-known urban housing experts to the Atlantic magazine article linking Hope VI and Section 8 housing to Memphis’ crime...

New Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash has hit the ground running, and one of his primary purposes these days is getting as much advice and hearing as many opinions as he can about our city school district.If his...

No one in elected or appointed office in Memphis has ever had as many people pulling for his success as new Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash.That’s why we know that he’s giving serious thought to how he’s...

Maybe we need to be putting in a call to Isaac Tigrett to see if he’ll put his crystal skull back in The Pyramid. The crystal skull that was discovered in the apex of The Pyramid and removed in the early days of the iconic...

Sometimes, it’s awfully hard to tell that there isn’t supposed to be traffic on Main Street Mall, but tomorrow night, the first steps might be taken to making it official.At 5 p.m. tomorrow (July 22), the Memphis...

The disagreement about school funding between Memphis City Council and Memphis City Schools is a crucial policy question that deserves the kind of careful judicial review that is taking place in Chancery Court.Even if there had...

We’ve written often about the value of seeing ourselves as others see us. Here’s a recent email we got from Brian DuLong, a visitor from Tampa:I read your post with great interest having just returned from Memphis as...

From Chuck Porter:As part of the WEVL family, I can’t begin to express the sadness and pain from the loss of our dear friend, Dee “Cap’n Pete” Henderson. Cap’n Pete and I had a common love for the genre of music we call blues;...

A guest post by Kevin D. Balkwill, Chair of Memphis Bar Association Access to Justice Committee:“Free? “Nothing’s for free!” It’s the only line of William Mastrosimone’s The Wool Gatherer that I remember from a lengthy monologue...

Brian Schultz was a teacher in Chicago’s public school system. His unconventional approach to teaching gave his students a new way to learn, and an opportunity to change their school for the better. He’s written a...