It might be called the case of the Phantom Tax Increase: The City Council voted to add 18 cents to the city property tax rate on June 21. Then council members failed to add the 18 cents to the rate when they approved the tax...
Read MoreIn response to our post earlier this week about the dispute between Memphis City Council and Memphis City Schools, we heard from several Council members who took issue with our opinion. In the interest of having a meaningful...
Read MoreWhile we encouraged and supported Memphis City Council’s attempt to end the double taxation of Memphians for public education, that noble battle was lost when the courts abandoned all logic and confirmed the current...
Read MoreMemphis Mayor A C Wharton has an ambitious agenda that he laid out during his campaign, but one goal he set surpasses all of them for its audaciousness: To make Memphis one of the country’s best-run cities. That is of...
Read MoreIt’s the political equivalent of no good deed going unpunished. That’s the moral of the Memphis City Council’s attempt to bring reason to the city’s inequitable tax burden. But the Tennessee Supreme Court isn’t known for its...
Read MoreThese are days when optimism and hopefulness have actually been realistic attitudes for us in Memphis. Yesterday’s Memphis City Council meeting was a reality check, showing that we have a ways to go. It’s no secret that...
Read MoreMemphis City Council – the Rodney Dangerfield of local politics – does so much right and gets so little credit for it. Bill Morrison is the architect of this year’s budget resolution. Jim Strickland pushes for more cuts in...
Read MoreIf man bites dog is the definition of news, a couple of stories lately were as predictable as a dog biting a man. Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy embellished the image of herself and her city as selfish in the extreme, and a...
Read MoreIt’s a teachable moment for Memphis. But it may be squandered because of failing grades given in deportment to Memphis City Schools and Memphis City Council, aided and abetted by the class troublemaker, a news media that always...
Read MoreMemphis City Schools says it may cut funding to charter schools. So what else is new? The district’s been shortchanging the charter schools for years. Because of it, we’ve always found it perfectly logical that Memphis City...
Read MoreWhen Willie W. Herenton left Memphis City Schools as its superintendent following his election as Memphis mayor, the City of Memphis budget that he inherited was just slightly smaller than the one he managed at the school...
Read MoreJohn Branston of Memphis Flyer suggests that there is math homework that Memphis City Council needs to attend to before giving Memphis City Schools any more money. He writes: Call it “The Case of the Missing 7,000 Students.” ...
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