Category: Shelby County
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Why Iām Against Consolidation
In the past several years Iāve been an advocate for Consolidation. Iāve written several posts in support of the subject. Today Iām changing my tune. Today, I come out against consolidation and all it stands for. What does consolidation even mean? The definition of Consolidation is combine (a number of things) into a single more…
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Sunshine in Memphis ā Part 3
On Monday I talked about the online transparency efforts of the City of Memphis. Yesterday we touched on Shelby County Government. Today I want to focus on the Shelby County Election Commission. Before I begin, I have to say that nearly every interaction that I have had with the staff of the Election Commission has…
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Sunshine in Memphis ā Part 2
Yesterday, I talked about the online transparency of the Memphis City government, today I want to touch on the online transparency efforts of the Shelby County government. First of all, the Shelby County Governmentās site is a good deal more visually appealing than the Memphis site, but just as cluttered. The front page does, at…
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Consolidation ā Whatās the Real Agenda?
Iām no conspiracy theorist, though I have been known to come up with some pretty funny stuff to keep the Tin Foil Hat Club busy, but Herentonās doomed strategy to force county residents into consolidation seems not only destined to fail, but designed to fail. Herentonās been beating this drum since the mid-90ās, and he…
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More on the Cooper Allegations
It took a couple of days for our daily to notice, but this morning the CA finally had something on the Joe Cooper Testimony. The article is a sight longer than the one referenced yesterday, but ultimately, no new information…except for this exoneration of two former council members… “There were a couple of people that…
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Consolidation Conundrum
When I moved to Memphis some three and a half years ago I had little knowledge of the communities that lie on the outskirts of the city proper, but within the confines of Shelby County. Arlington, Bartlett, Germantown, Lakelandā¦to me they were all just āMemphisā. Iāve spent a good long time thinking about these āBurbsā…