Author: Smart City Memphis

In response to Friday’s post about the potential takeover by Governor Phil Bredesen of 17 city schools, we were asked for a list of the schools. Here it is: Airways Middle, Carver High, Cypress Middle, East High, Fairley...

From Carol Coletta’s CEOs For Cities’ blog:This is fun. Get your neighborhood’s walkability score here. Just log in with your address. Super simple.My current Chicago neighborhood scores a 67 out of 100 (no...

Kip Bergstrom, executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, is one of the smartest people we know, and no one bears more listening to.“Leadership is about telling stories,” he said to this year’s class of...

More and more, there’s a growing question about whether the members of the Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners are playing Nero to the district’s Rome whose smoke doesn’t even seem to be noticed by them.Bereft of...

What would you be willing to do to put 2.6 billion extra dollars into your local economy each year? Would you be willing to drive 4 fewer miles a day?That’s what Portlanders are doing, and it’s paying big dividends...

We’re hard-pressed to think of any recent enterprise reporting that’s more impressive than Memphis Flyer reporter Chris Davis’s coverage of Memphis Light, Gas & Water’s troubled investment in Networx. Methodically, he has...

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...