Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Panning the Pyramid Sale
Last week I wrote this post advocating for the sale of the Pyramid to an interested local church. This morning, I found this post in my rss feed from Smart City Memphis panning the idea of selling the Pyramid. We’re all entitled to our own opinions. Certainly, selling an icon of the city skyline shouldn’t…
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Pickin' apart the Pickens Plan
Over the past few days I’ve been seeing a lot of ads featuring Swift Boat financier/apologist T. Boone Pickens. Here’s the ad: His site and the plan that he lays out, is an interesting, though hardly comprehensive, take on energy independence. The long and the short of it is, lets build a bunch of wind…
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Just Something Funny
I Stumbled Upon this clip this morning….
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America First – A Response
In this week’s Memphis Flyer there is an opinion piece called America first. Bound by the constraints of print media, it is far from comprehensive, but brings up an important conversation; What should our foreign aid look like? Should we even have any foreign aid? On a certain level, I agree with the author. In…
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Sell the Pyramid
Fox 13 reported last night that Cummings Street Missionary Baptist Church wants to buy the Pyramid for $12 million. It’s believed that the City and County currently owe $12 million for the now abandoned building, so why not? It takes the debt load off the city, it puts an iconic building to use, and it…
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Larry Godwin v. MPD Enforcer
I just got back in town, and see that our Police Director has sued AOL to find out the identity of the bloggers at MPD Enforcer. Up to this point, I had never heard of the blog, though it seems to get some pretty heavy traffic, particularly from Law Enforcement. I just went back and…