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JOE B. KENT
Current Reading List
Measurement is Blaspheme – Measures the effectiveness of the unmeasured Memphis economic development complex while identifying the problems of atrocious small business development and disconnected education/workforce development regarding deficient Memphis/Shelby total wage growth
Workforce Development is Economic Development – Discusses how corporate/real estate tax abatements have been prioritized over a true driver of economic development in workforce development while providing a research based solution.
Benchmarking Excessive Incentives – When it is said “every city offers incentives” which is agreed, this blog benchmarks the incentive excesses in the Memphis system that undermine the true drivers of economic development in small business and workforce development. The Memphis establishment dismisses their own people by not transacting with local small business or educating its population.
Commercial Appeal Memphis Tomorrow Article – Memphis Tomorrow can’t stand it when they don’t completely control the narrative which is the reason for the CA disclaimer regarding Electrolux at the top of the article where a refuting reference can be produced.
Memphis Tomorrow Sets the Standard / Nightmare – Best blog I have ever written
Videos
- Conversations with Mr. Crump – Memphis Rigged System
- Don’t Care – Conversations with Mr. Crump
- EDGE Task Force 3
- New EDGE Board
- EDGE Retention PILOTs Explained
Articles
- CA – Econ Development Benefit the Small Few 3/27/19
- Excessive or Not – 3/26/19
- Tri State Defender – ATTN Media – 3/22/19
- Fake Disruption 3/17/19
- Botched Vitality – 3/6/19
- Facts: Tax Incentives – 3/1/19
- Small Business Goals – 2/28/19
- Broken Rules Subsidized – 2/26/19
- Electrolux – Personal Property 2/23/19
- Pro Business Incentive Reform – 2/19/19
- More of the Same – 2/18/19
- Nobody Knows – 2/9/19
- Electrolux Analysis – 2/9/19
- Stolen Bootstraps – 1/26/19
- Workforce Development #1? – 1/18/19
- No Chance – 1/15/19
- Feeding Frenzy – 1/11/19
- Trifecta – 1/3/19
- Trickle Down Lie – 12/27/18
- MCCL – Elitism Not Good 12/21/18
- MCCL-Epicenter 12/14/18
- MCCL – Disconnect 12/11/18
- MCCL – Crisis 12/6/18
- MCCL Measured – Deferred 11/28/18
- MCCL Measured – EDGE Reform 11/25/18
- JustMy – MWBE Rigged 11/19/18
- MCCL Measured – PIGS 11/18/18
- MCCL Measured – Disruption or More of the Same 11/16/18
- MCCL Measured – Get Started 11/11/18
- MCCL Measured – Improve by Terminating (11/9/18)
- JustMy Memphis – Workforce: Elephant in the Room (11/5/18)
- MCCL Measured – Elephant in the Room (11/1/18)
- MCCL Measured – RIGGED: EDGE Tools of the Trade (10/29/18)
- MCCL Measured – Social Justice Starts with Taxpayer Justice (10/26/18)
- MCCL Measured – Memphis Tomorrow Sets the Standard (10/11/18)
- JustMy Memphis – EDGE Task Force – Pulling it All Together (10/4/18)
- Just My Memphis – EDGE Task Force: Getting Real
- Just My Memphis – EDGE Task Force / Economic Development ?
- Just My Memphis – EDGE Task Force / A Rebalancing Act
- Just My Memphis – Regional Talent Pipeline Development
- Just My Memphis – Oversight is Good for Business
- Just My Memphis – Economic Development Reset (8/14/18)
- Tri-State Defender – Economic Development – More of the Same…. (8/4/18)
- Just My Memphis – An Engine for Economic Development – GMMDC 7/31/18
- Just My Memphis – MATA, Workforce and Economic Development – Where is the Advocacy (7/23/18)
- Just My Memphis – Legislative Leadership Needed For Economic Development (7/11/18)
- Smart City – Residential PILOTs: “Candy” For The Few, Costing Taxpayers Millions (7/9/18
- Just My Memphis – Vitality Displaces Stagnancy (7/1/18)
- Smart City – What is Economic Development (6/30/18)
- Just My Memphis – C’mon Chamber Get Real (6/25/18)
- Smart City Memphis – Slow Growth Cost to Taxpayers $47M (6/15/18)
- Commercial Appeal – Memphis Economy Needs a Better EDGE (6/8/18)
- Smart City – Retention PILOTs are not Economic Development (5/30/18)
- Smart City – Beyond PILOTs – Thinking BIG and National Leadership (4/30/18)
Workforce Development Articles
- Smart City – GMMDC: Smarter Path to Economic Development-8/15/18
- Smart City – Beyond PILOTs – Thinking BIG and National Leadership – 5/30/18
- MDN – Retention PILOTs – Thinking BIG and National Leadership (4/25/18)
- Memphis Business Journal Workforce Solution Editorial – (5/26/17)
Joe B. Kent Public Comment – (You may need Silverlight or Flash to view)
- Shelby County Commission 8/13/17 at 2:07:30 – MRYE public comment for EDGE and economic development reform
- Denied County Commission Legal Opinion 7/27/18
- EDGE Public Comments -7/25/18 – Concerns over Poplar TIF and gutting the public record
- Memphis City Council on 7/24/18 at 1:57 – Keeping economic development reform front an center.
- Shelby County Commission at 10:30 7/23/18 – At 11:45 I request the public’s legal opinion to be released regarding Shelby County Appropriation authority
- Memphis City Council at 47:00 – 7/10/18 – Call for legislative oversight and leadership in economic development policy
- Shelby County Commission Budget Committee at 1:08:45 – 6/27/18 – EDGE Meeting update and follow up on legislative oversight
- EDGE Public Comment – -06/20/18
- City Council Attempted Public Comment but not Heard 06/19/18 – Emailed to Council and Commission
- Shelby County Commission Meeting 6/18/18 – 2:59:35 – Pressing for local legislative oversight of EDGE
- Shelby County Commission Economic Development Committee 6/13/18 at 4:38:50 – EDGE restructuring and course correction. Mr. Robertson of Community Lift states need to identify who’s on first at 4:21:25
- Memphis City Council Public Comment 6/5/18 at 1:41:50 – Concerns over the lack of public voice in economic development planning. Chairman Boyd comments at 1:44:20.
- Memphis City Council Public Comment 3/6/18 at 1:54:15 – Concerns over Memphis Tomorrow and effective use of taxpayer funds
- County Commission Budget Committee Meeting 5/17/17 at 1:34 – Rigged culture stifling economic growth
GMACW References
- Commercial Appeal – GMACW loses leader -2/1/17
- Commercial Appeal – Evanoff questions local community Board effectiveness – 2/11/17
- Commercial Appeal – Harvard Tech / GMACW progress questioned -3/25/17
- Memphisworks / GMACW Concerns Goes Public City Council – 4/11/17
- GMACW Board Dissolution and EDGE Takeover – 4/20/17
- GMACW Editorial – 4/28/17
- Memphis Business Journal – 5/19/17
- Memphis Business Journal Workforce Solution Editorial – 5/26/17
- Complete Tennessee Report 6/17
- WorkKeys featuring Gwen Ifill
- Success in the New Economy
- MBJ-Mired in Red Tape
- MBJ – Skills to Blame
- MBJ – Record Unemployment
- MBJ – Smart Career Builder
Memphis Small Business Rankings vs 106 Metros
Memphis Non-Profits
- Commercial Appeal – Evanoff questions local community Board effectiveness
- Memphis non-profits national ranking per 10,0000 population
EDGE
Poverty
National Income Inequality
Economic Growth
- The Memphis Economy
- Quarterly Census of Employment Wages
- Small Business
- Commercial Appeal Evanoff – Crisis Mode – 5/12/18
- Commercial Appeal Evanoff – Economic Development Spending (6/8/18)
- Commercial Appeal Evanoff – Economic Reform (6/9/18)
- The Memphis Economy – Amazon Gave us a Road Map (11/9/17)
- Memphis Economic Development Suggestions (7/1/18)
- Commercial Appeal – Economic Growth 4/28/18
- MRYE Economic Development Survey Group 7/28/18
- Evanoff – Site Availability (9/15/18)
- Good Jobs First – Small Business
- Millennial and Stagnancy
- Small Business Culture
- Small Business Culture 2
- Commission EDGE Resolution