Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Our Structural Deficiencies
So I know I’m a day late and a dollar short on the news of the credit downgrade by S&P. Quite honestly, I wanted to see the reaction before I tried to write anything about it. Initial reaction dealt mostly with the $2t error by S&P, something that should make the company blush a bit.…
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Assisted Stupidity
So I guess something was passed yesterday that’s supposed to have brought us back from the brink of the disaster that would have been a credit downgrade. If you don’t think a credit downgrade would have been bad, look at your creditcard statement, down there by the interest rate, and add 10 points to whatever…
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Why Does Whalum Choose to Stretch the Truth?
You can’t always pick your messenger, and folks who maybe aren’t so interested in resolving an issue are more interesting on TV than folks who, you know, want to see school start on time and all, but it amazes me that our media is so lilly livered that they can’t even call someone out on…
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Manufactured Crisis
“What we have here is a failure to communicate”, as the line goes from the movie Cool Hand Luke. But what Memphis has seen since Monday is not a failure of communication, but an unwillingness to communicate in any venue other than in front of the cameras. What started on Monday as a demand for…
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via City Council Chair Lowery
Below is a fact sheet sent out by City Council Chairman Myron Lowery. I’ll have a post on this at some point, but I’m still tracking down a few details… — City of Memphis Education Funding Fact Sheet · The City of Memphis has paid MCS over $171.7 million in operating funds since July 2008…
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This Isn’t Going to Stop Fraud
No matter what, there’s always going to be someone that tries to game the system. That’s just the way it is. And to the extent that it’s a problem, there should be some effort to keep people from gaming the system, in this case, the system we have in place to protect the vote. For…