Author: Smart City Memphis

We need more churches like Idlewild Presbyterian Church.If you are Christian, you may be like us. We tire from our faith being high jacked by a minority who uses it as a whip to lash anyone who disagrees politically, who has a...

There could be merit to the proposal for the school boards to have taxing authority, but it’s up to school officials to carry the burden of proof. They’re not even close yet.If Dr. Jeff Warren’s prescription for taxing authority...

Who would have guessed that the most serious wave of socialism wouldn’t bubble up from the demands of the unwashed masses but would walk over in Canali suits from Wall Street?It’s been a long, strange journey, and it may get...

There is little question that city and county governments made a serious misjudgment when they expanded the Memphis Cook Convention Center.Because of it, we’re inclined not to join those dismissing out of hand Mayor Willie W....

In politics, you know things are getting out of hand when your very presence produces an added overlay of suspicion and mistrust that complicates public decision-making.That’s certainly been the case with the conspiracies...

This week on Smart City: two different cities, two unique challenges. We’ll speak with Ana Menezes and Lindsay Enters from the group TeachNOLA. The organization works to bring the best and brightest teachers to New Orleans...

Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash and his educational émigrés are coming face-to-face with a fundamental reality of Memphis City Schools – our urban school system has operating systems that are anything but...

We live in the Age of the Big Lie.George Orwell saw it coming, but it took a couple of decades longer than he thought. Somehow, it seems appropriate that Ronald Reagan was president in 1984, because his administration gave voice...

Memphis is #5 with a bullet. Unfortunately, it’s the list of the top 10 cities with the highest poverty rates. As alarming as that statistic is, it could be much worse if it wasn’t for Tennessee’s liberal annexation laws. That’s...

Educational experts disagree about the wisdom of creating schools for overage students, the strategy that’s a centerpiece of Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash’s strategies to turn around the low-performing...