Author: SCM

The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution look like cowards. A week ago, after a few hours of pressure from the right-wing Catholic League and various conservatives, it removed a video by David Wojnarowicz, a...

Alex Marshall is the transportation columnist for GOVERNING and a Senior Fellow at The Regional Plan Association in New York City, and the following is a column on the growing popularity of bicyles: Bicycling, the mode of...

Darrell Phillips, former TV newsman and soon-to-be lawyer, wrote an interesting article in the latest issue of Memphis Lawyer. It’s about a University of Memphis law student whose research into consolidation became the...

Vivek Wadhwa is director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and offers this advice in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Build a...

Interim Superintendent Dan Ward was heading up Memphis City Schools when the amendment aimed at making Shelby County Schools a special district.  His testimony to a committee of the Tennessee Legislature remains relevant: Good...

There’s nothing harder than trying to change the culture of a bureaucratic organization, as Mayor Wharton knows full well.  Here’s the latest advice from New York City Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith: Job routines are...

He was born into a family of privilege, in a city where the dividing line between rich and poor is more pronounced than most. That would have been true whether John Stokes had chosen Vanderbilt or Auburn, whether he lost dozens...

Memphis should be #2 in passing an open data law.  There should be no data created in city government (and county government, for that matter) that is not the property of the public, and as a result, it should be shared with the...