Tomorrow is Father’s day, and since I wrote a whole post about Mother’s Day last month, I gotta do the same thing for dear old dad, lest he get jealous or feel left out or something. According to
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Tomorrow is Father’s day, and since I wrote a whole post about Mother’s Day last month, I gotta do the same thing for dear old dad, lest he get jealous or feel left out or something. According to
Summer is just around the corner even though temperatures over the past weekend may lead you to believe it’s already here. But it’s not all fun and games, despite the photo of one of my favorite Memphis politicians enjoying some summertime fun. There’s some serious stuff, particularly budget decisions on the local level, that...
City Council Chair Harold Collins says Memphis City Schools are lying about why they are laying off workers, according to this report from Jane Roberts of the CA: Peace between the City Council and Memphis City Schools board has been tentative for a while, but the armor of civility slipped away Tuesday. Council chairman...
Yesterday we talked about one proposal to trim the dficit in the Memphis City Budget, closing Municipal golf courses. Today the Commercial Appeal reports on more of the detalis of the proposed budget cuts by Mayor A C Wharton that has at least one Council member none too happy. From the article: Wharton’s proposed...
Not really, but sorta/kinda. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. presents his first city operating budget proposal to the City Council on April 27. Wharton has offered a few directions and goals of the budget, but the numbers will come later this month. The Memphis Daily News is following the clues from recent statement’s...
Smart City Memphis takes a sobering look at the budgetary quagmire that Mayor Wharton and the City Council find themselves facing: Troubling trends that have been gathering for 20 years, exacerbated by the last eight years of the Herenton Administration, have landed with a thud on the desks of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton...
A Memphis City Councilman is not so sure… “This kind of reminds me of the 1950s and 1960s,” said Brown. “African Americans had to be off Main Street by a certain time. Main Street was a restricted zone for me growing up. I remember when they blew a whistle to tell African Americans to...
fearlessvk breaks down why the proposed anti-panhandling ordinances for Downtown Memphis won’t work: I know this is a terribly unpopular position, but I’m opposed to these ordinances. There is no sense in repeating endlessly the same things I posted three years ago, but here’s a quick summary of my concerns: Aggressive panhandling is already...
No One Likes Making Tough Decisions
Budget time can be contentious, regardless of the organization. As we saw in the waning days of this state legislative session it can be VERY contentious. City budgets are no different, and are also facing the same pressures, if not more acutely, than the state government. On June 8th, the Memphis City Council approved...
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