Tag: consolidation
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It’s Not a Promise, It’s a Threat
The noise machine is cranking up again. After a week or so of cooling off during the Christmas to New Years media dead zone, the coverage got ratcheted up again yesterday thanks to a “press conference” from the good folks at the Shelby County School Board. But don’t be fooled. All the rhetoric coming from…
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Why Iām Against Consolidation
In the past several years Iāve been an advocate for Consolidation. Iāve written several posts in support of the subject. Today Iām changing my tune. Today, I come out against consolidation and all it stands for. What does consolidation even mean? The definition of Consolidation is combine (a number of things) into a single more…
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Wharton Comes out For Consolidation
From the CA Mayor Wharton announced today, in his state of the county, that he supports consolidating the governments of Shelby County under one roof. That’s good for the discussion…a reasoned voice that, perhaps, can lead the way. I just have one questions though…why not the schools? Sure Memphis City Schools are as much of…
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Consolidation ā Whatās the Real Agenda?
Iām no conspiracy theorist, though I have been known to come up with some pretty funny stuff to keep the Tin Foil Hat Club busy, but Herentonās doomed strategy to force county residents into consolidation seems not only destined to fail, but designed to fail. Herentonās been beating this drum since the mid-90ās, and he…
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Consolidation Conundrum
When I moved to Memphis some three and a half years ago I had little knowledge of the communities that lie on the outskirts of the city proper, but within the confines of Shelby County. Arlington, Bartlett, Germantown, Lakelandā¦to me they were all just āMemphisā. Iāve spent a good long time thinking about these āBurbsā…