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Category: Shelby County

  • Wyatt’s Beanstalk

    Once upon a time there was a man named Wyatt. Wyatt was a strange man, with strange ideas about service delivery. In particular, Wyatt believed that services are delivered magically by faith based organizations when government no longer provides them. Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, Wyatt believed in this magical mythical delivery system…

  • Flood or No Flood, The World Keeps Turning

    This may sound a bit callous or cold, but it is a harsh reality: The world doesn’t stop just because we’re staring down the barrel of a disaster. Lots of things are going on across the state and the nation, and even though it’s hard to keep up with everything with all the flood information,…

  • Just What Does 48′ Mean? #memflood #tnflood

    I took this picture at 2pm on Monday. According to NOAA, the river was about 42′ at that time. The river is set to crest at 48′. That would put the water up on the street behind me, covering about half of the turnaround in this picture. Based on the FEMA models, that would be…

  • Water, Water, Everywhere… UPDATED – #TNFlood

    Update: Gov. Haslam did announce a State of Emergency on April 26th, though at the time of this writing it did not appear on the main page of the TN.gov news site. The error has been noted below. In the wake of what has been called one of the most violent and deadly storms in…

  • Getting Involved is Easy, If You Let It

    You may think that City government, or County government, or even state government doesn’t matter. You may think that it’s too hard to keep up with what’s going on locally. While the local news of the day may not be splashed across the first five minutes of the national news, or on the 24 hr…

  • We Do it to Ourselves

    The fundamental nature of government in America is that it exists, and is made up by, individuals that represent the majority will of the people. Who that majority is and how they come to be the majority is in question with every election, and it comes down to participation. At the end of the day,…