Author: Smart City Memphis

OK, let’s all take a couple steps back and take a deep breath.As we do it, we’re especially hoping that the Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners will join us.For all of our sakes, we need the board to move beyond its...

It’s incontestable that Memphis has an awful lot of ground to cover if we want to convert our rhetoric about supporting our legendary music into the reality of supporting our musicians.So, continuing our post from yesterday, how...

In a Memphis magazine interview, Tonya Butler, three-year resident who’s teaching music business at University of Memphis, made this prescient statement: “There’s lots of music in Memphis, but there’s no industry.”Her point is...

The track record of the Memphis Music Foundation has been one of false starts and misplaced priorities, but it’s on the verge of falling convincingly on its face.That’s because Memphis Music’s pioneering digital outpost –...

Future Farmers may be the least likely name for an artists collaborative. But it does, indeed, describe the work of artist Amy Franceschini, now, quite literally. As winner of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s...

When it comes to interpreting the political tea leaves, Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners is about as good as Mid-South Fair carnies.Repeatedly, state government tried to send nuanced messages that should have alerted...

With grand plans to become a community known for its strong strategic planning and its sustainability policies, the Town of Piperton at the same time runs the risk of giving new meaning to the term, Podunk community.The...

Rarely has there been a more aptly named document than Memphis City Schools’ “Proposal for Expenditures of Additional State Revenue.”It’s the Academic Affairs Department’s plan to spend $42 million in new state funds, and it...

Cities are like elephants. They get more economical with size. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Geoffrey West, president of the Santa Fe Institute. Together with ecologist Jim Brown of the University of New Mexico, he is...

In light of today’s lively discussion, here’s the link to the Shelby County Schools’ high school attendance zones.