From Governing.com: If you’re living in California, expect to spend a sizable chunk of your income on housing. That’s one of the many findings from the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey, conducted biennially to assess...
Read MoreHere’s a tale of the tape that tells an awful lot about Memphis and the inequality (26% poverty rate) that defines so many of our challenges. From Atlantic Cities: Poverty – or, more generally speaking, deprivation – is a...
Read MoreMemphian Scott Newstok, who teaches English at Rhodes College, has an interesting commentary in today’s Inside Higher Ed: What an exciting year for distance learning! Cutting-edge communication systems allowed colleges to...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: In her dissent to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling Tuesday gutting the core of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg evoked the long history of persistent tactics that have been used to...
Read MoreFrom Government Technology: New platforms are transforming the idea of civic duty and reinventing how citizens engage with government. These tools allow users to interact and share feedback with government entities in creative,...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: What if your local telephone booth was also an electric vehicle charging station? Or construction scaffolding became a fun place to sit down and eat lunch? Or a roadside billboard became a lush,...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective: Why are streets with trees better received than those without? Why is dappled light through leaves more pleasant than sun beating against the pavement? What is our affiliation to rolling...
Read MoreFrom Spontaneous Intervention: Toni L. Griffin has dedicated her career to maintaining the vitality of cities. She is a board member of the Institute for Urban Design and the director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the...
Read MoreFrom Governing: BY: Stephen Goldsmith| June 19, 2013 “Stat” programs have emerged as one of the most important government operational reforms of the last 20 years. Just five years after Police Commissioner William...
Read MoreFrom Chronicle of Higher Education: What do employers want? The association surveyed employers in the business and nonprofit sectors to find out what they most value in hiring college graduates. With regard to Trend No. 1, 93...
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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 →