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  • More Fragile than We Knew

    More Fragile than We Knew

    As we near the end of week 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic, I find myself noticing just how fragile the world is. Its not what we thought it was. Just two weeks in supply chains are strained. Health systems are having to ration protective equipment. We don’t have enough tests to really know how widespread…

  • Cameras are only part of the solution

    16 shots. Chicago police released the video this week, after a year of legal wrangling, of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Over a year since the incident, the officer is facing first degree murder charges. According to police accounts, McDonald was a suspect in some auto burglaries in the area. The police also say…

  • Shakedown 2: Role Reversal

    After the announcement from Memphis City Hall that Jack Sammons would be taking over as the City’s CAO, I wrote this post, pondering the issue as either a shake-up or a shakedown. At the end of the post I posed a question: Is this shakeup the move of a leader who recognizes he’s got a…

  • A Shake-up, or a Shakedown?

    Monday’s announcement that Jack Sammons was Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s choice to take over as the City’s CAO is only surprising in that it took so long to happen. The mayor’s administration has been mired in criticism from city employees, and citizens who don’t feel they’re getting much in the way of anything (tax…

  • Playing to his base

    Every once in a while someone does something that makes you wonder if they think you’re stupid. You’ve probably felt what I’m talking about a time or two. They give you that look. They slight you in some way. Or they sell you on a tax cut in an election year, to hide the fact…

  • “God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise”

    The creek is rising…if you consider the Mighty Mississippi a creek. Two of the areas that will be hit the hardest were hit just last year…Millington and Dyer Co. Dyer officials breeched the damn levee to prevent a bigger disaster as the Mississippi river rises. Last year, during the flooding to the north of us,…