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Category: City of Memphis

  • Memphis’ Travel Troubles Aren’t Limited to Airfare

    Over the past week, much of the conversation here in Memphis has revolved around transportation and tourism. The week started with Mayor Wharton’s trip to St. Louis to try and lure COGIC back. Just a week before came news that the National Folk Alliance was moving to Kansas City. In each case, the cost of…

  • Manufactured Outrage

    I hate to spill ink over something as ignorant as this, but I had to come back swinging eventually, so here goes. Yesterday on twitter I let loose a series of tweets and decided, this morning to use them to test Storify. [View the story “My Take on Local Media” on Storify] What brought all…

  • Overton Square

    I wasn’t able to attend the meeting Wednesday about the Overton Square development project, but from what I’ve read both here and here as well as the running comments I saw on Twitter Wednesday night, the project looks pretty promising. Loeb Properties has, as promised, put the presentation on their site as well as the…

  • Poverty In Memphis

    Everyone has an image in their mind of what poverty looks like. We all have some concept of what it means to live in poverty. Until you’ve lived in and around poverty, until you’ve actually experienced it first hand, you really can’t have any understanding of what it means, what it looks like, and the…

  • The Fear of Knowing

    Tuesday, the Memphis CIty Council took up an issue that would require a supermajority to raise property taxes in the City of Memphis. The measure, which was supported by Councilman Kemp Conrad, operates under the premise that spending by the City government is either out of control, or could be at one point out of…

  • District 1, 2, and 4 Contests – #memvote

    Turnout over the weekend was pretty light. Just 923 people voted on Saturday, a quarter of them from District 6, which I took a look at yesterday. As of the close of early voting Saturday, just 3018 individuals had voted. That’s pretty low folks. With 15 hours of voting that we have information on, and…