Archive for December, 2010

Electrolux, Is It a Good Deal?

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Recently through an open records request I asked for the following information from both the City and the County.

I would like the financial analysis showing the total cost of the all incentives including bond interest and legal costs and the (more…)

Posted in Financial, PILOTS | 2 Comments »

It’s a MAD MAD MAD MAD World

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

After reading Dr. Jeff Warren’s recent article in the CA and considering last night’s vote in favor of surrendering the Charter, I would like to suggest a change to MAD from Mutually Assured Dedication to Mutually Assured Derision. Even though Jeff voted against the Charter release, he is a member (more…)

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Finally Some Progress

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Mike Matthews (Channel 3) asked me the other day concerning my investigations “Why do you do this?” I replied that someone has to keep the public informed or the politicians will do what they want rather than what (more…)

Posted in Financial, Pension | No Comments »

The Arrogance of the Memphis City School System

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

For some time Jeni DiPrizio of Channel 24 Eyewitness News and I have had a common gripe and that is the intransigence of the Memphis City School bureaucracy as concern open records requests. After recently filing three (more…)

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Pyramid Bonds and You The Taxpayer

Monday, December 6th, 2010

I sent the following open records request to Mr. Jim Street of the Center City Commission and he said that he did not know the answers and suggested I send it to Robert Lipscomb or Roland McElrath. He did send the (more…)

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Mayor Luttrell and Pilots

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

On November 11, 2101 I wrote an article on PILOTS (payments in lieu of taxes) which was posted on memphisshelbyinform.com. Yesterday I got a letter from Mayor Luttrell in response to that article which I very much (more…)

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