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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • 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…

  • Redistricting Push Picked Up in Memphis Flyer

    Jackson Baker, the intrepid senior editor and political reporter of the Memphis Flyer, used some column inches in this weeks report to cover the redistricting issue that I’ve been talking about here. Lost in all the budget business as well as many other pressing city matters, is the very way we elect our city legislative…

  • Priorities

    This made the rounds of the internets last week, but I think it got lost in the shuffle of the long weekend. A Principal in Michigan sent a letter asking his Governor to turn his school into a prison… One solution I believe we must do is take a look at our corrections system in…

  • The Paywall

    Ed Note: I started writing this yesterday afternoon. Since then there have likely been updates that I’ve missed, and I may be restating some stuff that’s already out there. Time constraints being what they are, I offer this in the spirit of talking about what could be. As time permits and more information emerges, I’ll…

  • Checking Their Work

    The Tennessee General Assembly adjourned for the year this weekend. In the process of this session, there have been a lot of bills that brought a lot of attention, and many many more that got almost none. What’s more, we haven’t seen the end of this session yet, as all the bills that were passed…