Progressive Politics from Memphis
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#MCS Following the Media – 1/25/11
Debate!, FORUM, lively discussion… Whatever you want to call it, it happened last night, right before the State of the Union Address, which made for a whole night of politics. I wasn’t able to sit down and listen to the whole thing. Life intervened. If you missed it too, you can watch it here. Based…
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#MCS – Following the Media – 1/22/11 through 1/24/11
Yawn… Long weekend. And really nothing new. Whalum still doesn’t take Bill Gates at his word. Gatewood is still defending her honor from attacks from County Commissioner Terry Roland. The State Legislature is still on vacay. Memphis still owes MCS however much money we owe them. And Jeff Warren is still desperately seeking to pass…
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#MCS Following the Media – 1/21/11
Now that the date has been set for a citywide referendum on the issue, it appears that a great deal of the rhetoric and whatnot concerning the ability of Memphis to determine the future of its school district has calmed a bit. That doesn’t mean it will stay that way, that just means that is…
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#MCS Following the Media – 1/20/11
What? Could it be? An emerging voice of clarity and calm? From the Shelby County Schools side? Surely not. Well, that’s exactly what Shelby County Schools Superintendent John Aitken was in this interview with Ernie Freeman. I encourage you to watch it. Despite all the back and forth threats and fear tactics that have been…
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HD-98 Results
Congratulations to Antonio Parkinson on his Democratic Primary win in the HD-98 election. This was a very low turnout election. The Commercial Appeal reports just 629 of the 30,000+ registered voters turned out to vote. The general election is on March 8th, the same day as the scheduled Memphis City Schools charter surrender vote. No…
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The Propagandists
So the media is all flipping out about my Congressman, Steve Cohen, calling propagandists, what they are… propagandists. In doing so he chose to use one of the most notorious propagandists of modern times, Joseph Goebbels. Folks have said he called Republicans “Nazi’s”. That’s not what I heard. What I heard was a guy that’s…