Success in 2008
I have only one top Memphis event of 2008. Only one because a) I'm lazy, and b) people from the future have assured me it dwarfs everything else. I have this:
Term Limits added to the City Charter.
This change was a systematic and democratic repudiation, approved by a hugely overwhelming majority of voters, of Memphis' historic (and royally fucked-up) paternalism.
The change will create more leaders, and not just political leaders. The more leaders we produce, the more creative, dynamic, honest, responsive, prosperous -- greater -- Memphis will be.
Here's to a civic Memphis that looks more like a Mississippian mound than an Egyptian pyramid.
Term Limits added to the City Charter.
This change was a systematic and democratic repudiation, approved by a hugely overwhelming majority of voters, of Memphis' historic (and royally fucked-up) paternalism.
The change will create more leaders, and not just political leaders. The more leaders we produce, the more creative, dynamic, honest, responsive, prosperous -- greater -- Memphis will be.
Here's to a civic Memphis that looks more like a Mississippian mound than an Egyptian pyramid.
Labels: creativity, hierarchy, history, Memphis
posted by gatesofmemphis at 4:30 PM
2 Comments:
Don't tell Sydney Chism or Walter Bailey.
or Wyeth Chandler or Marcus Winchester. They probably wouldn't have liked it either.
1819 or 2009, it's an important idea.
Post a Comment
<< Home