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Category: Shelby County

  • Funding Education 101 – Part 1 – Where the Money Comes From

    I’m going to be very honest. I haven’t been following the blow by blow with the School Board. Too many meetings, too little information, in writing, too much speculation. I like hard facts. I’m not interested in drama unless that drama furthers something relevant. For a whole host of reasons, some of which I covered…

  • How the County Commission played the School Board for the fool

    There are five simple rules that Kenny Rodgers taught me about life, politics, and the budget process: Know when to hold ’em. Know when to fold ’em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. Never count your money, while you’re sittin’ at the table. There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s…

  • Securing the Vote

    Election Day is over, and despite some local reports of problems with too few machines in some places and malfunctioning machines in others…it seems to have gone pretty smoothly. Regardless of your political bent, we should all be thankful for that. It wasn’t that way for everyone, as the video to the left shows. No…

  • Bullet Dodged? – Shelby Elections Edition #WrongBallot

    This post isn’t about my race at all. It’s too soon for me to write anything remotely coherent about that right now, though I may write a series of very short posts later on. We’ll see. This is about the results of the Primary election in Shelby County from yesterday and how the wrong ballot…

  • Election Update – Stay tuned #WrongBallot #VoteShelby

    Just a quick update. Real life has intervened in my ability to update the numbers over the past several days. Based on a cursory analysis of information released this week, tomorrow’s numbers will be telling. I hope to have a more comprehensive update tomorrow afternoon about the effect of the Election Commission’s efforts to correct…

  • Resources and Findings #WrongBallot

    So they don’t get buried behind other posts, here are the resources and findings that I revealed Monday. — Findings Excel Spreadsheet PDF Version Google Earth KML Files: Congressional Districts State Senate Districts State House Districts Resources Voter Participation List through 7/20/12 Download Google Earth here. Watch the video here. Note: New PVL files may…