Author: Smart City Memphis

County elected officials talk about the evils of sprawl, the OPD staff keeps working on planning reports and the taxpayers keep grumbling, but reading headlines ballyhooing the coming completion of Tennessee Highway 385, it’s...

Featured on today’s planetizen.com are the findings of CEOs for Cities’ research that are key to Memphis’ continued downtown revital and our city’s competitiveness in the future: Economist Joe Cortright...

With expanding inquiries into the lobbying firms of former staff members and friends of former House Whip Tom DeLay, this post of September 26 seems even more relevant:Another unfortunate feature of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...

When Steve Bares talks, we should listen. As head of the Memphis BioWorks Foundation, he is making things happen, effectively and methodically creating a major new industry for Memphis’ future.That’s why his recent comments to...

It’s becoming evident that taxpayers may have missed their best chance for getting control of tax freezes when Memphis Councilman Tom Marshall’s motion to implement immediately the recommendations of the study on tax freezes...

Despite a cumulative 11 years of national leaders from Tennessee – first the United States Vice-President and now the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Tennessee is still back in the pack when it comes to the amount...

The Associated Press report this week that Chattanooga residents are driving to Georgia to escape high sales taxes could just as easily have been written in Memphis, where the implications on the tax base here is more profound...

Linda, a 64-year-old teacher, is hardly the stereotype of a civic reformer. But the winds of Hurricane Katrina that swept away so much of New Orleans also swept away the lethargy that has for so long been a fundamental part of...

From Salon comes this positive post about Memphis International Airport:The FedEx/Northwest Airlines hub makes it easy to be a tourist from Asia. by Andrew LeonardDec. 19, 2005 | Concourse B of the Memphis International Airport...