Blame it on FedEx or the aerotropolis idea, but when people talk about the driver of the local economy, planes are almost always mentioned …
And at a Leadership Academy event last week, Shelby County mayor A C Wharton was no exception. Only, in his analogy, the area wasn’t flying high: “Our government is, as I see it, the ice on the wings on our plane to success,” he said … More of Mary Cashiola’s In the Bluff column here.