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Guest Column: Time for Beale Street Music Festival to evolve

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 9 Aug 2023 04:00:08 -0500

“The leadership of Memphis in May has not changed since 1998. We should be grateful for their work over the years, keeping the festival going through all of the rain and mud and years. But it’s time for a change.”

Opinion: Surviving another round of pandemic-related restrictions

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 08:57:37 -0600

Taylor Berger: “Time spent fighting change, whether out of fear or resentment, is time wasted. Acceptance of the new normal is the key to growth, which sometimes even leads to gratitude.”

Life after COVID-19: What's it gonna be like?

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:30:46 -0500

Most people I’ve spoken to in business and health care are questioning the old ways. What’s the point of these massive office buildings, inefficient meetings and travel? The new ways will save money and free up time, so why go back?

Berger: Lost my jobs and income, then I went for a run

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:48:35 -0500

Yesterday I scraped up someone’s leaky trash bags from the side of the road and threw them into the back of a truck to haul off. It’s hard to believe just two weeks ago I was planning parties, booking bands and editing menus.

A letter to Tom Intrator

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:00:01 -0600

'Imagine someone wrote you a letter describing who you are, what you need to do, and how you should go about it. Imagine it wasn’t someone you really knew, and yet they act like they know you better than you know yourself. That’s kinda how we feel.'

Music Fest needs an overhaul

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Fri, 10 May 2019 04:00:05 -0500

What happens at Music Fest in Memphis feels like a frantic cash-grab to break even on the massive production costs of creating a miniature city at Tom Lee Park every May. New Orleans’ Jazz Fest and Austin’s South by Southwest do a better job of dispersing throughout the city cores, which boosts businesses while drawing tourists.

Successful cities are defined by imaginative leadership, not stasis driven by hordes of naysayers

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:00:07 -0600

Cities evolve or die. Look at places like Nashville, New Orleans, Atlanta and even Louisville and Austin. Compare those to Little Rock and Jackson, Mississippi. Which do we want to be more like?

Memphis’ code amendments are squelching small, creative developers

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 04:00:00 -0600

Who exactly is driving the opaque process by which the Office of Planning and Development amends the UDC, and what does it mean for a city struggling to attract and retain people and businesses?

Union Row points out inequities in development process

tcbmem@gmail.com (Taylor Berger) — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 04:00:01 -0600

First, let me say I’m pretty much all for development, especially in the Memphis city core, but I think the massive Union Row project demonstrates an inequity in the development process that we need to examine. The beauty of this problem, however, is the solution would have a positive impact, helping create new small “infill” development across Memphis in neighborhoods that might otherwise be ignored.