Tag: Harvey Kennedy

  • Mulroy on CCHS and Title X – The skeptics were right

    Well, that’s not exactly what he said on Fox13 News at 10pm on Friday…his actual words don’t fit into the headline, so I paraphrased. Mid-South News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | FOX13 What does Title X funding do? Here’s a synopsis from a previous post: Title X family planning funds seek to help women and…

  • 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…