Author: Smart City Memphis

From the New York Times:By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANI’ve been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as...

If term limits are an idea whose time has come, perhaps a good place to start would be the members of the more than 150 public boards in Memphis and Shelby County.Media attention regarding terms limits concentrates on elected...

In response to last Thursday’s blog about ministers preaching hate, we received another copy of the following email, which seems to make a reappearance every few months, but which bears rereading:On her radio show, Dr...

 For those who asked about the weedy welcome mat at Memphis International Airport, here’s a photo of what the “flower bed” that was supposed to greet our guests actually looks like these days. Let’s tell the truth. Hollywood...

Frustrations about the Shelby County budget are leading some county commissioners to do something they haven’t done in years – question the amount of county money being spent for a state office – the district attorney general....

Well, if nothing else, we’re consistent. When faced with how to sell Memphis to a group of International Paper Company executives accustomed to the high quality of life that their current Stamford, Connecticut, headquarters gets...

As a late but satisfied reader of Erik Larson’s “The Devil in the White City” about the great Chicago World’s Fair, I came across the following passage this morning…”The exposition promised to...

The chairman of the Memphis and Shelby County Airport Authority is quoted in the Memphis Flyer as saying that Memphis without FedEx is Shreveport. Well, music heritage, an MSA twice as large, a more vibrant business base and...

In the end, the Edgar Ray Killen verdict was nothing if not a case of justice delayed, justice denied. Four decades passed before he was finally convicted of his lead role in the hate-filled murders of three heroic civil rights...

“Greenprints,” as Will Rogers of the Trust for Public Land said on Smart City, is a smart growth strategy emphasizing land conservation to improve quality of life, clean air and water, offer more recreational opportunities,...