Author: Smart City Memphis

The Memphis Arts Council has handled the easy part.Now for the hard work. Reborn as ArtsMemphis, it now has to make sure that its rebranding campaign is about more than a new name, look and logo.After all, brands really are...

Even America’s most depressed downtowns are showing vigorous signs of life. It’s a surprising development no one predicted in the bleak years of the 1970’s and 80’s when many so-called experts dismissed...

Shelby County Mayor AC Wharton’s support today for a city mayoral takeover of Memphis City Schools has a tough road ahead, but it seems to fuel more speculation about his future political ambitions than discussion about the...

Shelby County Commissioners Henri Brooks and Sidney Chism continue their war against reason.Their latest misguided salvo targeted MPACT Memphis, the organization of young professionals (or in the parlance of the day, emerging...

Well, now we feel better.Memphis City Schools Chief Operating Officer Michael Goar – as he packs his bags to join former superintendent Carol Johnson in Boston City Schools – assures us that as the Central Nutrition Services’...

Even America’s most depressed downtowns are showing vigorous signs of life. It’s a surprising development no one predicted in the bleak years of the 1970’s and 80’s when many so-called experts dismissed...

Politics, like life, is all about timing.That’s why you would think that the proposal for county government to put $5-6 million into a proposed development on the “Highland Strip” would be problematic; however, it passed 7-2 in...

The local controversy about the National Civil Rights Museum is now the equivalent of the Southern California wildfires – sometimes it only takes one person with a grievance to strike a match that ends up threatening what most...

Forbes posted an article yesterday about the most sedentary cities in the U.S., and unfortunately, Memphis is #1. When the reporter called last week about this, she asked us about the causes and the responses. Here’s the...

So, here’s our question for the county board of commissioners: Why would anyone send you a gift unless they are trying to influence your position or gain your political favor?Were any of these gift-givers sending you presents...