T. Sharp on Twitter (@newscoma) Steve Ross on Twitter (@vibinc) Steve Steffens on Twitter (@leftwingcracker)Mayor Herenton begins his campaign for Congress despite having raised no money. Wonder who paid for the ballroom at the Holiday Inn? Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton opened his Congressional campaign Saturday afternoon to a crowd of around 300 in East Memphis. A core group of about half the crowd crowded around the stage...
fearless vk contemplates the idea that The Pyramid could be converted to a Museum of Contemporary Art, with the positives and the negatives. What, you ask, is MOCA? MOCA is the Museum of Contemporary Art, located in the Pyramid in Memphis, TN. Oh, it doesn’t exist. But if these folks can have their way,...
Although Steve Steffens, Steve Ross and I are working together on this project, we still will be blogging at our regular sites. If you are seeing this post, you are experiencing the “soft” launch. Over the weekend, we will be making some technical and content management adjustments as we put our feet into the...
Smart City goes into depth regarding the exacerbation of sprawl that I-269 will bring to the Memphis area and how it makes things WORSE, not better. The reason we are so exorcised about I-269 and other sprawl-inducing highway projects are because they deepen the economic segregation that holds back Memphis’ progress. Memphis is #1...
The sports columnist-turned weekly metro columnist reduce the Herenton campaign to its component part (s). He has a picture. Just a picture. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. Willie Herenton has a picture. He displayed it Thursday morning, during his appearance on WREG-TV Channel 3 “Live at 9.” “I want to talk about...
Senator Reginald Tate (D-Memphis, District 33) explains to Tri-State Defender readers why the city of Memphis has filed suit against Wells Fargo. Since 2005, there have been more than 23,000 foreclosures in Shelby County, which has 40 percent of all foreclosures in Tennessee. Many of these foreclosures are a result of subprime mortgages, high-interest...
The CA’s Clay Bailey reports that Rebuild Government gets some advice from one of the cities where consolidation has worked that’s NOT named Nashville… Speaking with a unified voice has helped Jacksonville and Duval County make significant strides over the past 40 years, a leader in the Florida city’s consolidated government said today. Rick...
That’s what the Commercial Appeal is reporting this morning. Ford, 59, was not present for the two-week special legislative session on education last month and has been unable to attend the regular session that ended its second week today. Last month, she wrote Speaker Ron Ramsey that she was unable to attend because of...