Julius BTW, any remaining debt on those buildings will remain with Shelby County as a whole, and not be passed to the Munis. State law. Those are public buildings, the... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
Jeff, I am probably more pagan than I would like to believe being born and raised in America and educated in government funded public schools. However, we were talking about... Read Story | Read All 80 Comment(s)
No Julius, there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with an incorporated city taxing itself to pay for whatever service level they want, and in many cases,... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
@OTP Has that constitutional challenge to the new law been filed yet? Seems like the Supreme Court ruling in Martinez settled that issue of disparate impact. We are waiting for... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
Basically, all they care about is getting their paycheck (as one employee told his supervisor when he refused to help a customer).... Read Story | Read All 11 Comment(s)
I think that it is great for an entrepreneur to be able to identify a target market (vegans/vegetarians) and pull together their many resources (finding a ready made food truck)... Read Story | Read All 1 Comment(s)
@Progressive Alas and alack, Memphians cannot just vote and dissolve their city. State law will not permit that. I don't know what the response would be from the suburbs if... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
Jeff Got it. We need some kind of sarcasm indicator on the board. Hard to read that intent in the written word. I am certainly open to some sort of... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
Understandable, considering how difficullt it is to mock the stupidity around here sometimes. There's is nothing I can say in jest that some idiot won't double-down in complete seriousness.... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
@Jeff Got it. We need some kind of sarcasm indicator on the board. Hard to read that intent in the written word. I am certainly open to some sort of... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
If Memphis deannexed everything outside the I-240 loop, I can imagine the hue and cry from county government and the suburbs on how Memphis is "abandoning their responsibility." Then they... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
First off, OTP, ... many of the buildings will follow the students to the MSD's, along with the associated debt. Those are likely the newer buildings which will have the... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
Thank you, Bianca, for covering the rally. Our community can surely find a vet to work for 87K a year who won't ignore the suffering of an animal in her... Read Story | Read All 11 Comment(s)
Sarcasm, Pop. I was addressing America's famous exclusive concern for Anglo-Saxon countries, when we let them be invaded and bombed by Germany for multiple years in two wars before finally... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
Diogenes323 There are no facts to accept yet about the municipal schools option. Yes, the law is on the books, however, it has been challenged in court and that must... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
@OTP What Anglo-Saxon principles do you have in mind? I have never heard of any Anglo-Saxon "principles" and I sure want to know more about those. What should we say... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
And what do you call those who have an irrational and absolutely rabid dislike for GWB? It's been my experience that the first person to throw out the race card... Read Story | Read All 6 Comment(s)
A Sad day, indeed. I used to work for the family's furniture store, "Donald Furniture Store" back I the early 1970s and have to say Don was always the gentleman,... Read Story | Read All 5 Comment(s)
Which is why America declared war on Germany the minute (plus or minus a couple of years) they occupied France and bombed England.... Read Story | Read All 95 Comment(s)
OakTree I don't think they will ever accept the fact until they wake up and notice that thousands of students are not showing up on the USD rolls. "If it... Read Story | Read All 12 Comment(s)
Oh cool, BB, didn't know you were a pagan. FYI, to be a good pagan, you should know that the two-serpents twined about a winged staff is called a caduceus... Read Story | Read All 80 Comment(s)
Bruce, marginalize three scandals, or in the case of Benghazi, corrupt crony politics, to exonerate the annointed one and his minions. And of course blame George W. for doing the... Read Story | Read All 18 Comment(s)