Tag: Alan Wade
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Walking and Chewing Gum Is Too Hard for the Memphis City Council
If the Memphis City Council were conducting a survey on their strengths and weakensses, procrastination would be a huge strength, coordination would be a serious achilles heel. Grasping the magnitude of the issues and realities facing the city would be a mixed bag between the members, some performing better than others, some not even registering.…
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Redistricting Push Picked Up in Memphis Flyer
Jackson Baker, the intrepid senior editor and political reporter of the Memphis Flyer, used some column inches in this weeks report to cover the redistricting issue that I’ve been talking about here. Lost in all the budget business as well as many other pressing city matters, is the very way we elect our city legislative…
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Mr. Ross goes to City Hall
So yesterday, I spoke to City Hall about the redistricting ordinance. I thought about doing a lot of things like showing up with 9 petitions and asking which ones applied to me, bringing a horde of people as “supporters”, all kinds of theatrical stuff. In the end I decided against it for a couple of…