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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 3

    When we last left off, I had just finished taking a look at the proposed services to be provided by both PPGMR and CCHC. In addition, we took a look at the individual scores from the six evaluators. I raised some questions about their choices and noted that we’d talk about that more here. Well…

  • I’m Asking For Your Support

    As you probably know by now, Mike Carpenter has left the County Commission to work on education issues in Nashville. While Mike and I have very different views on a lot of things, I respected the way he conducted himself, including the way he was willing to cross party lines for things he believed in.…

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 2

    As noted in my last post, there has been a great deal of politicization of this issue, not just at the state and local level, but nationally. What gets lost in this political tug of war are the people who stand to benefit most from the family planning services that would be provided. This issue…

  • The Battle for Title X – Part 1

    The political fight has been going on for months now. Since February as a matter of fact. But it all really culminated with an attempt at the state level to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving funds for Title X Family Planning. The move was thwarted, amid calls of sabotage, and perhaps folks felt comforted by…

  • Perfection at it’s most Perfect…

    …doesn’t exist . Your idea of perfection is not my idea of perfection, My idea of perfection is not yours. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re wrong, Just different, like everyone is. The world would not be better if everyone thought like me, It would be boring and stagnant, and a little frenetic. The world would…

  • Poverty In Memphis

    Everyone has an image in their mind of what poverty looks like. We all have some concept of what it means to live in poverty. Until you’ve lived in and around poverty, until you’ve actually experienced it first hand, you really can’t have any understanding of what it means, what it looks like, and the…