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Category: Memphis Politics

  • Classless

    As the old Sir Francis Bacon quote goes, “knowledge is power”. While that may be true, knowing something doesn’t necessarily give you the right to exploit it for personal financial or political gain. But people make choices, right or wrong, and there’s nothing you can really do, other than call them out when you disagree,…

  • Metro Charter Commission Meeting – 12/17/09

    Last night, the Metro Charter Commission met for the fourth time. From looking at the agenda one might conclude that it was going to be a barn burner with topics such as the fate of the two school districts, annexation, and Constitutional officers on the agenda. While the meeting was interesting, a barn burner it…

  • Be a Part of the Conversation

    Back in August, before the Metro Charter Commission was formed, I wrote a post about having a “frank and actionable discussion” about government. Yesterday, at Shelby Farms, I was pleased to participate in the launch of an organization whose mission is to help foster that discussion. Rebuild Government, organized by Brian Stephens, seeks to build…

  • Metro Charter Commission Meeting – 12/03/09 – Updated (12/8/09)

    Edited To Add: Added some links to the post and to the Resource Page Last night the Memphis/Shelby County Metropolitan Charter Commission met for the third time. As with any new board tasked with such a huge mandate, there are still some structural and organizational issues to be decided, as well as a lot of…

  • Metro Charter Commission Meeting Thursday

    At 4pm in Suite 850 of the Shelby County Administration building at 160 N. Main (Source), the Memphis and Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission will meet for the third time (as far as I can tell). You probably haven’t read much about this, because there hasn’t been much to tell. The first meeting was…

  • No Sour Grapes

    Well, today has been pretty wacky. First of all, I want to thank City Councilman Shea Flinn, Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery, and County Mayor/ City Mayor Elect AC Wharton for having the courage and outside the box thinking to nominate me. Even though I didn’t get seated on the Charter Commission, I’m honored and…