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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • Third Way Scared to Death of Any Third Way Other Than Their Third Way

    This one comes from the Establishment Group that seeks to pretend like its not part of the establishment department. Third Way, the moderate, moderation kinda liking “think tank” is advising the Democratic party to steer clear of the Occupy Wall Street movement reports Jason Linkins for HuffPo. Seems the middle of the roaders have found…

  • Manufactured Outrage

    I hate to spill ink over something as ignorant as this, but I had to come back swinging eventually, so here goes. Yesterday on twitter I let loose a series of tweets and decided, this morning to use them to test Storify. [View the story “My Take on Local Media” on Storify] What brought all…

  • Collateral Damage

    Before I go on, I want to say it was wrong of me to lump in both the Senate and House Caucuses in my criticism of House Democratic Caucus Chair Mike Turner. Seeing as how he’s chair and all, it might lead one to think that he’s speaking for the caucus. That mistake wouldn’t have…

  • Overton Square

    I wasn’t able to attend the meeting Wednesday about the Overton Square development project, but from what I’ve read both here and here as well as the running comments I saw on Twitter Wednesday night, the project looks pretty promising. Loeb Properties has, as promised, put the presentation on their site as well as the…

  • Paralysis

    This isn’t what I wanted to write about today. In fact, this isn’t what I want to write about any day. But after seeing the manner in which this issue has been handled, I’ve got to say something. Of course, everyone has heard about the arrest of TN State Rep. Curry Todd – Collierville for…

  • Today is the Day

    Today is a big day for me, and several thousand people in Shelby County. Today is the day that I and several others go before the County Commission seeking appointment to the body through August 2012. This issue will not be settled today, but what happens today will have a pretty big impact on what…