Author: Smart City Memphis

Linda, a 64-year-old teacher, is hardly the stereotype of a civic reformer. But the winds of Hurricane Katrina that swept away so much of New Orleans also swept away the lethargy that has for so long been a fundamental part of...

From Salon comes this positive post about Memphis International Airport:The FedEx/Northwest Airlines hub makes it easy to be a tourist from Asia. by Andrew LeonardDec. 19, 2005 | Concourse B of the Memphis International Airport...

It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon a few days before Christmas and the line of customers waiting to order po-boys at Domilise’s is winding out the front door. One of those ramshackle New Orleans po-boy joints that are...

The more that you scratch the surface, the clearer it seems that an adequate facilities tax or impact fee is not the answer to Shelby County Government’s financial woes. The real answer seems to lie in a tax proposal that works...

You’ll never find this in the annual reports of the Center City Commission or the Riverfront Development Corporation, but in our book, one of their most noteworthy achievements is their construction signs. They’re the first...

The controversy about the nativity display at the Bartlett Library is beginning to look as orchestrated as “The Singing Christmas Tree.” More and more, it appears to be a three-act play co-written by Broadmoor Baptist Church and...

On the surface, it looks like a battle between Ophelia Ford and Terry Roland. In truth, it’s a battle about the credibility of the Shelby County Election Commission.The Senate hearing on the complaint filed by Roland is the sort...

We receive regular responses to our blog posts from a reader who always contributes to the quality of the discussion, as proven by this post to the commentary about the riverfront. We pull it from its buried position to give it...

If Memphis is anything, it is ever a tale of two cities, as we were reminded from three recent studies on the core city. The reports – one by the Brookings Institution and the other two by the U. S. Economic Development...