Author: SCM

A 2009 study by the Department of Agriculture found that 2.3 million households do not have access to a car and live more than a mile from a supermarket. Much of the public health debate over rising obesity rates has turned to...

From Memphis Business Journal: Memphis did not recruit much new industry to the area in 2010, which isn’t a surprise, given the economy is experiencing what Charles Gulotta calls the “worst economic downturn since the Great...

State officials have confirmed they are negotiating with Amazon.com about locating two centers in the Chattanooga area. Gov. Phil Bredesen and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber said in a news release...

The Center on Education Policy (CEP) released a study that tracks trends in achievement gaps for minority and low-income students in all 50 states, and the picture is bleak, according to The Christian Science Monitor. The report...

John O’Leary is a research fellow at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School and co-author of “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government.”  This post is from Governing: One...

The better the education people get, the stronger the U.S. economy will be, a poll shows. But don’t count on people to support higher taxes to improve schools. Eighty-eight percent say a country’s education system...

The modern information age ushered in by the rise of computers and the Internet has made the transfer of knowledge a rather trivial matter. What once took many hours of time and labor to gather and disseminate now takes a few...

Since 2006 Xerox has been doing something cool.  If you go to the website www.letssaythanks.com, you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier who is currently serving in Iraq. ...

From Bob Orr, executive director of the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law: Politicians talk about “creating jobs for people” as a rationale for giving incentives worth millions of dollars to selected...

WHEREAS, the 1869 Tennessee Private Acts Chapter 30 established the Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools and placed the exclusive management and control of the school  district known as Memphis City Schools with this...