Tag: Accountability
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Is Capitalism Killing the COVID Response?
Three months in to the COVID-19 response and testing still hasn’t ramped up. Did a throw away answer reveal the holdup is profit for private labs?
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Not Really Transparent
The Election Commission has a big job on its hands, but claims of transparency are overstated You can usually tell something about an organization by the way it deals with crisis. Organizations that are truly open will do everything in their power to show just how open they are by inviting stakeholders, the media, and…
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The Fear of Knowing
Tuesday, the Memphis CIty Council took up an issue that would require a supermajority to raise property taxes in the City of Memphis. The measure, which was supported by Councilman Kemp Conrad, operates under the premise that spending by the City government is either out of control, or could be at one point out of…
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10 Things
This is my 700th post. I started blogging for real in December of 2006. In the time since, I’ve written on a whole lot more than I ever imagined, transitioning from mostly national politics, to a kind of local advocacy that I’m really happy with, and proud of. When I moved here 7 years ago,…
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Redistricting: When Will This Start Being Transparent?
Our country is built on the idea of public scrutiny. The very sanctity of our representative democracy is balanced on our government’s willingness to publicly disclose what it is or isn’t doing in our name, and our collective will to demand disclosure. So when things happen, either by circumstance or on purpose, without the benefit…
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The Next SCDP
I guess I’m one of those people. I never give up. No matter how messed up something is, no matter how ineffective, my default setting is…“it can be fixed”. This Saturday, the second part of the SCDP re-organization will happen. On March 26th over 350 faithful Democrats came out to begin the process by electing…