There’s a timely discussion this Thursday for Memphis as the Memphis City Council has shown an interest in coming to grips with our seriously underfunded libraries...
Read MoreFrom Nashville Tennessean: You might think that going to California, Texas or New York exposes you to a lot of crime. But in fact it was Tennessee that had the nation’s highest violent crime rate last year. The FBI’s...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: People elect a mayor to get the trash off of their sidewalks. Maybe prominent local leaders like New York’s Michael Bloomberg don’t don coveralls and hop on the 4 a.m. pick-up shift, but they’re responsible...
Read MoreFrom Governing: It’s Friday afternoon on the far West Side of Chicago, and Barbara West, a petite, soft-spoken African-American woman, is out knocking on doors. West isn’t a salesman or solicitor; she’s the commander of the...
Read MoreThe Annie E. Casey Foundation reports that for the first time since the Great Recession, the U.S. child poverty rate did not increase, holding stead at 23%. Unfortunately, that’s a trend line that doesn’t apply to...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: It’s no secret that the recovery has been incredibly uneven. Some of its biggest benefits are accruing to the one percent, while the majority of Americans have seen their economic prospects stagnate...
Read MoreThese poverty rate estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau would mean that the poverty rate in Memphis has increased 10% since the 2010 Census (we’ve previously cautioned about unquestionable accepting these estimates). The...
Read MoreFrom Think Progress: The largest study of gun violence in the United States, released Thursday afternoon, confirms a point that should be obvious: widespread American gun ownership is fueling America’s gun violence epidemic. The...
Read MoreFrom citiwire.net: By Neal Peirce America’s cities, its towns and counties and communities, “gotta care.” Significant numbers of citizens are obliged to live with low wages and sometimes miserable working conditions, which...
Read MoreFrom New Geography: When the 2010 Census results were released, a number of big cities had populations that were very off from what would have been expected based on the Census Bureau’s previous annual estimates of the...
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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 →