Mayor Wharton recently named his new Innovation Delivery Team in charge of administering the 4.6 million grant the city of Memphis received this summer from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Memphis was one of 5 cities chosen to receive the three-year grant along with Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, KY and New Orleans. The grant was given to fund an [...]
Pink Palace manager of education Alex Eilers is currently on a six week expedition to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where she’s studying Weddell seals in their natural habitat. Chosen byPolarTREC from a pool of thousands of candidates, Eilers left in early January to join the team of scientists and educators at the largest permanent community on the [...]
My Top Five with Jimmy Ogle “Jimmy Ogle’s 5 Biggest Surprises in Memphis History ” The three co-founders (John Overton, Andrew Jackson and James Winchester) never lived in Memphis. The founding of Memphis on this strategic bluff in 1819 was purely a real estate venture from three powerful men from the Nashville area. There were 362 [...]
For two hours on Monday, February 6, the community is encouraged to come out to hear the candidates seeking to be elected in the upcoming Shelby County Primary election scheduled for March 6. Petitions have been filed by 18 candidates seeking to be your next Assessor of Property, Attorney General, General Sessions Court Clerk, or [...]
Bill Morrison, school teacher and former HR professional, is taking the gavel as chairman of the Memphis City Council after being sworn in on New Year’s Day for a new four-year term. As a member of City Council, he has a reputation for listening, consensus-building, and for serving capably his Raleigh-Frayser District while keeping a [...]
The Memphis community has shown incredible faith in the Leadership Academy’s mission to recruit, cultivate and engage diverse talent in order to move Memphis forward. When the Academy made the call after receiving a $50,000 matching grant from an anonymous donor, we received a resounding answer from the community in the way of $57,596 in [...]
After some years away, Memphis born Sarah Ray is back in her hometown, serving as Memphis team lead for the White House’s Strong Cities, Strong Cities Initiative. One of six cities selected to participate in the program, Memphis has the qualities the administration identified when the initiative was in the planning stages. “These six cities [...]
Memphis has never seen as much grassroots leadership as it has today. From improving neighborhoods, creating charter schools, and advocating for bike lanes and Overton Square, Memphians are engaged in an array of activities to improve their city. Because of it, you may be interested in this post from the Knight Foundation blog about the [...]
Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce is one of the most respected observers of urban trends in the U.S., and he spotlighted recently how “smarter cities” are using technology to become more efficient and targeted in their work. While writing that more than 2,000 cities are acting smarter, he named only two – Rio de Janeiro and [...]
For the past several months, the Mississippi River Corridor-Tennessee in partnerships with the University of Memphis and the Memphis Regional Design Center has been involved in a systematic study of the Shelby County segment of the Mississippi River Trail. The primary purpose of this study is to recommend changes and additions to the 50-mile segment [...]
