Tag: City Council
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Meet Your Candidates!
The filing deadline has passed, and even though we still have a week for people to change their minds (pull out), here are the candidates that have qualified for the ballot. These names started out in a particular order, but ended up all crazy. Order should not be taken as any kind of endorsement or…
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Why I’m Not Running
I’ve been avoiding this post for a week now. Even though I pulled a petition for City Council District 9, Position 1, I’m not running. This decision came with a lot of hand wringing and hair pulling. While I would like to put the blame on the recent wreck I had, that only played a…
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District 9, Position 1 – Who's in and Who's Out
Filed Petitions (Alpha by date filed)Kemp Conrad, Jimmy Ogle, Mary Wilder, Lester Lit, Arnett Montague III, Richard Stringer, Regina Morrison Newman Pulled But Not Filed – Deadline to File Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:00PMMaria Newman, Brian Stephens, Mike Karel, Nicholas Ayers, Steve Ross, Antonio Parkinson, John Willingham People We Know Won’t Be RunningSteve Ross –…
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Promises, Promises…
You made me promises promises,Knowing I’d believe,Promises promises,You knew you’d never keep – Naked Eyes Yesterday, the Memphis City Council decided against bringing two charter proposals up for vote in the November 4th election. Some of the details can be found here. Basically, there were two items up for a vote. One would give the…
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Getting in a Wreck Teh Suk
Today was eventful. The image you see here is my beloved 2006 Element, Jerome. He is dead due to a lady with neither insurance, nor brakes, nor common sense or decency. Yes, we rolled 450 and killed a street light in the process. Smac wants a memorial cone in the place the street light once…
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Cooper Implicates Ware
This does not bode well for the new City Council… From the Memphis Daily News Specifically, Cooper alleged such relationships with council members including E.C. Jones and Barbara Swearengen Ware, as well as unnamed members of the Shelby County Commission. Since the election, one of my big fears was that a member of the City…