Author: Smart City Memphis

We rise in defense of Sidney Shlenker. Now, we bet that’s something you didn’t ever expect to hear in this city. We do it because of a comment in the otherwise impressive reporting by Chris Davis of the Memphis Flyer in his...

We have a bad case of Memphis fatigue. We’ve already overdosed on race-baiting rhetoric, style over substance, divisive posturing and election coverage more in tune with the reporting at Churchill Downs. And, the campaign season...

To continue the theme that we began yesterday on what it will take for Memphis to recruit the kind of candidate that can become a great mayor, we post this from Philadelphia’s nonpartisan America’s Great Mayors...

Every city is one great mayor away from being a great city. It’s a mantra that we repeat often in cities where we work on issues that affect their competitiveness in a highly competitive global economy. We say it because time...

Good urban design is central to any city’s success. This week’s guests are shaping cities in important ways by making and celebrating good design.Simeon Bruner is founder of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban...

And who will investigate the investigators?More and more, it becomes a pressing question in light of the growing national awareness of how much politics plays a part in federal prosecutions. It becomes more and more a pressing...

In the latest volley by some county commissioners in their holy war against Juvenile Court, there is another line of assault – a proposed policy to swear in every one who appears before the legislative body.Frankly, we see...

Here’s hoping that the hiring of the interim superintendent isn’t a precursor to Memphis City Schools’ hunt for the new superintendent.So far, with the interim appointment, there’s been a maximum of political horse-trading and...

Providence, Rhode Island, was once the manufacturing center of the nation. The legacy of that history is a magnificent collection of mostly abandoned mills that are slowly being reclaimed for new uses. Clay Rockefeller might not...

Sometimes there’s unintended humor in the juxtaposition between the body of an email and the perfunctory legal note automatically pasted to its end.We thought of this when an email to Joseph Lee at MLGW returned this automatic...