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  • Take Action: Support Mulroy’s Title X resolution

    On Monday, the Shelby County Commission is set to consider a resolution to ask the County Administration (Mayor Mark Luttrell) to put the contract for Title X services out for bid. As noted in this post, the number of people seeking out Title X services has dropped dramatically in the two years since the contract…

  • Today is the Day

    Today is a big day for me, and several thousand people in Shelby County. Today is the day that I and several others go before the County Commission seeking appointment to the body through August 2012. This issue will not be settled today, but what happens today will have a pretty big impact on what…

  • The Battle for Title X – Wrap-Up

    Over the past week I’ve written several posts about the contract to provide Family Planning services to individuals in Shelby County. The first post dealt with the political issues involved. The second post took a look at the services to be provided and inconsistencies in scoring based on the quantity of those services. Yesterday I…

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 3

    When we last left off, I had just finished taking a look at the proposed services to be provided by both PPGMR and CCHC. In addition, we took a look at the individual scores from the six evaluators. I raised some questions about their choices and noted that we’d talk about that more here. Well…

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 2

    As noted in my last post, there has been a great deal of politicization of this issue, not just at the state and local level, but nationally. What gets lost in this political tug of war are the people who stand to benefit most from the family planning services that would be provided. This issue…

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 1

    The political fight has been going on for months now. Since February as a matter of fact. But it all really culminated with an attempt at the state level to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving funds for Title X Family Planning. The move was thwarted, amid calls of sabotage, and perhaps folks felt comforted by…