Ask the Memphian: Why did the city and state try to put a highway on Mud Island?
Mud Island is a popular destination in Memphis, with homes, stores and restaurants. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Bill Gibbons served on the Memphis City Council in the mid-1980s, and one of his most consequential achievements didn’t involve legislation or funding a new initiative.
It was stopping a major Downtown project.
“Sometimes, a win is successfully opposing a bad idea,” Gibbons said. “This is a prime example of that.”
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John Klyce
John Klyce is an enterprise reporter with The Daily Memphian who writes a wide range of in-depth features, as well as profiles about local leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, entrepreneurs, and anyone else doing exciting and important work in this city. He previously spent four years with the Memphis Business Journal, where he covered public companies, startups, and innovation, and a fifth year with The Commercial Appeal, where he covered education, and chronicled how gun violence and poverty were affecting Memphis youth and their families. He has also been a fellow with the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. John has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Memphis and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Boston University.
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