From Angry Bear: It’s always the same map. Here from Brad Delong is the map of the percentage who were slave by county in 1861 here is the corresponding area of a map of intergenerational relative income mobility by...
Read MoreFrom Governing: Few urban problems are more insidious than blight. Vacant or dilapidated properties suppress property values, threaten public safety, chase away investment and hurt quality of life. Blight was a challenge for New...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: By Richard Florida Debates in the U.S. over income inequality have taken center stage in recent years, but its existence in our cities is of long standing. Major metro areas have been magnets for both the...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective: The City of Baltimore is in dire need of new residents. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appears to have her sights on so-called “new Baltimoreans” to fill the city’s empty houses. Baltimore’s...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collaborative: Tree Wood / Tochihiro Oki Architects For millennium, designers of our built and natural environments have positioned the viewer in nature, setting benches in just the right spots with...
Read MoreFrom Next City: Story by Don Terry Zoning had never been particularly controversial business in Baldwin County, Ala. A fast-growing county right across the bay from the office towers of Mobile, Baldwin was the sort of place...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Last week I wrote about an important new study, published in the journal Science, that found that poverty itself – coping with the ever-present state of not having enough to live on – taxes the brain to the...
Read MoreFrom Huffington Post: City to deliver a tough message to business and political leaders. Detroit’s comeback, he said, depends on whether the city can improve the lives of working-class African-Americans....
Read MoreFrom Off the Charts blog: Cutting state taxes to attract entrepreneurs is likely futile at best and self-defeating at worst, a new survey of founders of some of the country’s fastest-growing companies suggests. The study, which...
Read MoreNote: According to Governing’s data, 42.3% of the Memphis workforce are nonresidents – or 165,679 workers. 43,603 are reverse commuters. From Governing: Taxes on commuters (and reverse commuters) represent a largely...
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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 →