Author: Smart City Memphis

Kip Bergstrom, executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, is one of the smartest people we know, and no one bears more listening to.“Leadership is about telling stories,” he said to this year’s class of...

More and more, there’s a growing question about whether the members of the Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners are playing Nero to the district’s Rome whose smoke doesn’t even seem to be noticed by them.Bereft of...

What would you be willing to do to put 2.6 billion extra dollars into your local economy each year? Would you be willing to drive 4 fewer miles a day?That’s what Portlanders are doing, and it’s paying big dividends...

We’re hard-pressed to think of any recent enterprise reporting that’s more impressive than Memphis Flyer reporter Chris Davis’s coverage of Memphis Light, Gas & Water’s troubled investment in Networx. Methodically, he has...

We rise in defense of Sidney Shlenker. Now, we bet that’s something you didn’t ever expect to hear in this city. We do it because of a comment in the otherwise impressive reporting by Chris Davis of the Memphis Flyer in his...

We have a bad case of Memphis fatigue. We’ve already overdosed on race-baiting rhetoric, style over substance, divisive posturing and election coverage more in tune with the reporting at Churchill Downs. And, the campaign season...

To continue the theme that we began yesterday on what it will take for Memphis to recruit the kind of candidate that can become a great mayor, we post this from Philadelphia’s nonpartisan America’s Great Mayors...

Every city is one great mayor away from being a great city. It’s a mantra that we repeat often in cities where we work on issues that affect their competitiveness in a highly competitive global economy. We say it because time...

Good urban design is central to any city’s success. This week’s guests are shaping cities in important ways by making and celebrating good design.Simeon Bruner is founder of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban...

And who will investigate the investigators?More and more, it becomes a pressing question in light of the growing national awareness of how much politics plays a part in federal prosecutions. It becomes more and more a pressing...