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      <title>Comments On: Is a Merger Worth It?
    
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      <![CDATA[uhoh- the city did reduce the property tax rate when it cut it's additional funding for MCS, which the courst have since ruled must be paid back.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[More of the shared needs that City taxpayers currently shoulder alone need to be shared countywide. The challenges faced in poverty stricken Memphis neighborhoods are a direct result of the withdrawal of residential and commercial wealth from the City by those that chose to leave, yet still visit every day.
        
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      <![CDATA[I really don't understand what is meant by county taxes being more sustainable. In the case of a merged school system, the city has roughly 70% of the people, but pays about 65% of the county taxes for schools.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for pointing that out--raising County taxes is a far more sustainable idea than raising the City's.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've got an idea. Why not write an article telling the people of Memphis that a "yes" vote is a vote to cut the budget for city schools by 72 million dollars a year, and the only way to get it back is to raise their county property taxes to pay for it.<br>
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I don't think they know that.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:14:03 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Oh, I think there is plenty of progressive news to be had in Memphis. If fact, it is all-progressive, all the time.<br>
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=2613570">GWCarver</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:27:50 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Maybe someone needs to start a "Neshoba Flyer" so folks can get their progressive weekly news without being subject to the Memphis Flyer's strangely Memphis leaning editorial slant.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:45:56 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Uh, Mr. Branston, what is going on here is not a merger and it is not going to bring about unity, because it is a hostile takeover. It seems to me that the media in Memphis could care less about the citizens who live in the current SCS cities and neighborhoods.
        
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      <![CDATA[With respect to the debate, I think merger will have a very positive outcome on some students while others students will see negligible improvement in their quality of education. I have experience ss a classroom aide with both city and county schools (Sherwood and Germantown) and the biggest difference Ive observed<br>
is NOT the quality of the teachers but the degree of discipline.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:09:07 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[still, why no press coverage of the portion of the UofM study that indicated the special district status of SCS will have no  or minimal effect on MCS?<br>
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do a story that either bunks or debunks that angle...
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:54:01 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[DocLogic]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yes, let us protect the precious ones! They are different from us!
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:08:46 -0600</pubDate>
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