Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett We are indebted to a wise and friendly visitor, Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, for the phrase that heads this editorial. The mayor, who has been elected four times to lead his up-and-coming city, was the third in the series of other cities’ chief executives who have been invited […]
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Greg Cravens On the cover story “The Lipscomb Affair” … Please stop referring to Robert Lipscomb as a “city planner” or “planner.” Nothing could be further from the truth. He devised his projects and proceeded to implement them without a bit of input from other city agencies or the public. He implemented them WITHOUT a […]
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Robert Lipscomb’s Influence and Playing the Gamble
In this week’s cover story, we, like the rest of the Memphis media, have begun to scratch the surface (and, for once, that oft-used cliché seems to be the right metaphor) of an ongoing problem in city government. Yes, we mean the Lipscomb affair, for sure — a saga, rivaling anything in Sophocles or Shakespeare, […]
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Greg Cravens On Frank Murtaugh’s Tiger Blue post “The Tigers’ Five Biggest Wins at the Liberty Bowl” … That 1996 W over the Vols is without a doubt the most incredible, satisfying game I’ve ever attended. Memories of that day will keep me warm and fuzzy the rest of my life. After the game, the […]
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Greg Cravens On Toby Sells’ cover story “The Urban Child Investment” But … bu … it’s all for the childruns! Must be good! ALJ2 ALJ2, If they threw in puppy adoptions, they might have something there. They could charge billable hours per paw. crackoamerican About Jackson Baker’s Politics Blog post “GOP Luminaries Play the Trump […]
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The Lipscomb Bombshell
Though Mayor A C Wharton insists that a whole matrix of development projects midwifed by the now former city Housing & Community Development Director Robert Lipscomb will go forward without “missing a beat,” the likelihood is that several of them, notably the controversial proposed Fairgrounds TDZ, could be in serious jeopardy. And that may be […]
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Greg Cravens About Jackson Baker’s post, “Council Votes Final Passage of Ordinance to Remove Forrest Statue” … If the state somehow managed to keep the statue from moving, what would stop the city from building something that encircles the entire statue, blocking the view of it from all sides, some sort of architectural monument built […]
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Viva The Donald
The Republican Party, the pundit class, the news-watching public of the United States — nay, the wide, wide world — all these have to be wondering right now just how long Donald Trump, the deal-making Manhattan billionaire and reality-show celebrity, can do the bumblebee trick of staying airborne in the presidential race without visible means […]
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International Go Topless Day at Overton Park
Well, yes, now that you ask, ace photographer Frank Chin did drop by International Go Topless Day at Overton Park Sunday.
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The New Convention Center Deal
It was roughly a year and a half ago that Mayor A C Wharton publicly proposed a fallback position regarding possible upgrades of Memphis’ convention facilities. He did so as a follow-up of sorts on what had been less than sanguine estimates from Convention and Visitors Bureau head Kevin Kane about our city’s having the […]
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What They Said… (August 20, 2015)
Greg Cravens About Chris McCoy’s cover story, “Best of Enemies” … Thanks for a good article. Having known Mr. Buckley and written at length about him, I can assure you that this infamous moment with Vidal was highly uncharacteristic. In fact, he had great friendships with many of the leading liberal/left-thinkers of the era: John […]
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The Shelby County Commission Kerfluffle
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” Those lines are familiar to most students of literature as the first words in Charles Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two Cities. After Monday, they may have a somewhat different meaning to Steve Basar, a member of the Shelby County Commission. Basar, who represents […]