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Tag: Shelby County Commission

  • What About the School Board?

    Ed. Note: For a fuller discussion of the current proposals on County redistricting, check out this post. Another issue, which is perhaps secondary to the debate on County redistricting, is that of the School Board. In the consent order from Judge Mays, the Unified School Board will go to 7 member after the unification of…

  • Redistricting the County Commission

    Yesterday, the Shelby County Commission again took up redistricting in committee. It was an interesting discussion, interrupted by an Executive Session, and a whole lot of questions about this and that. I’m not going to report on the meeting itself. In the end, the committee voted 6-4 to affirm the plan pictured to the left.…

  • Speaking of Redistricting…

    Yesterday I wrote about statewide redistricting. Just minutes after I published that post I remembered that the County Commission was taking the issue up for discussion. So I jumped in on the stream and gave it a listen. By the time I got there, the discussion was winding down, but based on what I was…

  • 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…

  • Getting Involved is Easy, If You Let It

    You may think that City government, or County government, or even state government doesn’t matter. You may think that it’s too hard to keep up with what’s going on locally. While the local news of the day may not be splashed across the first five minutes of the national news, or on the 24 hr…

  • MSARC – The Timeline

    I’ve been doing a lot of organizing and digging on the MSARC issue over the past several days. In addition to the audio of the last Executive Session of the Memphis City Council, I’ve been working to create a comprehensive directory of government actions, community activism, news reports, and blog posts dealing with the MSARC…