From Sustainable Cities Collective: Robert Linn of the Southwest Detroit Business Association recently turned to the Placemaking Leadership Council’s LinkedIn group for inspiration about how to transform some vacant lots into...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities by Richard Florida: Creating high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurial enterprises has become a common goal of cities. Metros and states have cut taxes, implemented entrepreneur-friendly business policies,...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points....
Read MoreFrom Pacific Standard: With nearly 2.5 billion materials circulated through more than 16,000 public branches, 2013 was one of the strongest years for libraries in the past decade. And things are looking up. • America’s network...
Read MoreFrom governing: The ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new business that has been enticed to relocate from somewhere else and boost local jobs is a seemingly irresistible lure for most elected officials. And two cases playing out in...
Read MoreFrom Governing: The dominant talent paradigm in America today is “brain drain.” The idea is to prevent educated people, particularly the young who grew up or went to school in a particular place, from leaving. This...
Read MoreNote: We have written often about the visual pollution – not to mention the inconvenience when they are in the middle of the sidewalk – caused by the large utility boxes that dot Memphis. Recently, we saw how St....
Read MoreFrom Governing: More than 40 years ago, the sociologist Daniel Bell made a startling prediction: The coming decades would see nations decline in power and importance. The most important problems of the coming era, Bell said,...
Read MoreFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education: In recent years, nearly every state in the nation has been scrambling to find cost-effective ways to help more students complete a college degree. As policy makers and colleges grapple...
Read MoreFrom Governing: Closely-scrutinized unfunded pension liability figures paint a bleak picture in cities’ financial statements. But in some cases, local taxpayers are actually on the hook for far greater unfunded liabilities....
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →