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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • Surely This isn’t the Path to More College Graduates

    There’s still a lot to assess from this years session, but since Higher Ed. came up yesterday, I thought I’d take a moment to address it. Not everything that came out of session was bad for college students, but it definitely came at a cost to them. The one thing that college students will most…

  • Is HB0600 The Worst Bill of 2011 Session?

    Possibly. For those of you who weren’t following along HB0600 was drafted just days after the introduction of Nashville’s CAN DO ordinance, an ordinance that requires vendors who contract into business with the city to follow rules against GLBT workplace discrimination. The point of HB0600 is to roll back any such local ordinances and make…

  • Here’s One Government Program Republicans Don’t Want to Privatize

    Ed. Note: Story updated below… In fact, they want to “de-privatize” it. Betsy and In Session reported yesterday on the one thing that was probably as sure to happen as the sun rising in the east, setting in the west, and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s love of Consort Hair Spray for Men. Planned Parenthood of…

  • Some More Thoughts on the City Council

    So I’m pretty sure there are some City Council members that think I was excessively hard on them in my last post. Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. I said what I meant and I meant what I said, that’s the best anyone can do. I am, and have been frustrated that this council has…

  • Walking and Chewing Gum Is Too Hard for the Memphis City Council

    If the Memphis City Council were conducting a survey on their strengths and weakensses, procrastination would be a huge strength, coordination would be a serious achilles heel. Grasping the magnitude of the issues and realities facing the city would be a mixed bag between the members, some performing better than others, some not even registering.…

  • Wyatt’s Beanstalk

    Once upon a time there was a man named Wyatt. Wyatt was a strange man, with strange ideas about service delivery. In particular, Wyatt believed that services are delivered magically by faith based organizations when government no longer provides them. Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, Wyatt believed in this magical mythical delivery system…