Midtown Facts
Although Midtown is a rather vague term for an area in Memphis, it basically entails Central Gardens, Overton Park, Hein Park near Rhodes College, Cooper Young, Annesdale Snowden, Little Hanoi and the Parkway.
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- February 21, 2012 - Chi Town Gets Gas Break - The Chicago area, which usually leads the nation's highest gas prices, is getting a break at the pump. - Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, says Chicago's apparent discounted gas prices are partly due to local refineries clearing out the winter blend gas to make room for cleaner-burning summer blend. - "Prices across Chicago continue to buck the national trend and have gone down in the last week," said DeHaan. "The national average has gone up 5 cents last week and Chicago dropped about 9 cents a gallon last... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Michelle on Vacation - Again - Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News. The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents' Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Muslim Warned Us - As reported at Gatewaypundit: On May 10, 2008, Sheik Muhammad ABu Al Qat said on TV, "let me bring good tidings to the Muslims: Allah willing, the American empire will very soon collapse...This won’t happen as a result of war. Not at all. Allah will send to America an American Gorbachev, from within. Gorbachev, who brought about the USSR collapse, was one of them. Everybody knows this story. An American Gorbachev will surface in America, and he will destroy this... More →
- February 18, 2012 - For It, But They Don't Want to Pay It - As orthodox Catholic author Steve Kellmeyer points out (in americanthinker.com): - On the one hand, the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) is attacking Obama for forcing them (the bishops) to pay for contraception. On the other hand, the USCCB is pushing forward the idea that taxpayers should pay to extend unemployment insurance (again). - And that's just the beginning of the rich irony. You see, almost none of the parishes in the United States pay unemployment insurance. They get dispensed from the mandate to do so because they are religious organizations. So, if you are employed by a Catholic parish and you get laid off, so long, sucker. You can't collect unemployment because your bishop hasn't paid into unemployment for you.... - Read more:... More →
- February 17, 2012 - Uh Oh - This note from Zerohedge blog: - while we know that total debt to GDP is already over 100% and unlikely to ever decline back to double digits, thus putting into question the marginal utility of debt to generate further economic growth, another just as important question is what is the incremental utility of tax revenue relative to debt issuance, i.e., is America now issuing more debt than it is collecting from tax revenues: a step which would further cement its status as a banana debt... More →
- February 15, 2012 - Not Prepped for This - Sipsey Street Irregulars blog has this item: - "Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government." His first mistake? -- Going on TV and expecting anything different than what he got. Not that this isn't an outrage, just... More →
By Georgeann King, on February 16th, 2012 Justin Joy, Shelby GOP Chairman, had good news to report on the Gala: Last Friday, February the 10th, the Shelby County GOP held its 37th Annual Lincoln Day Gala. The time and preparation that went into the event was monumental. However, the work more than paid off as we set new records of fundraising [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 1st, 2012 I wouldn’t get too excited about today’s ADP report of private jobs added for the month. It’s heralded as an indicator of Friday’s unemployment number, but it has missed as much as hit. In other words, a monkey with a dart board is probably as accurate. Here’s the analysis from ZeroHedge blog: The highly irrelevant economic noise [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on January 31st, 2012 This morning the Congressional Budget Office came out with information on the deficit for 2012. It is a staggering 1.08 trillion (you might want to up the Rick Santelli video below). This makes the fourth trillion plus deficit in a row. Not good and no signs of anyone slashing it. Not surprising, then, is it that [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on January 26th, 2012 Tuesday night at Channel 5′s 10 p.m. newscast, I was aghast to hear Joe Birch read this nugget: “Tea Party activists in Tennessee want to ban the word slavery (he dropped that word as heavily as a two volume encyclopedia onto a library floor) from Tennessee school textbooks. This comes more than one year after [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on January 20th, 2012 County Commissioner Heidi Shafer was interviewed on the Ken, Bev and Andrew show on 98.9 this morning. She talked about the contentious redistricting issue. She said they may vote to switch chairman on Monday. [...]
By Georgeann King, on January 18th, 2012 Alan Crone, former Shelby GOP chairman, discussed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on Channel 3. Here’s what he said about it. [...]
By Georgeann King, on December 14th, 2011 A lot of economic news is being eclipsed by the media’s obsession with Republican presidential polls. It seems they want to inform us hourly of any change therein and still not one vote has been cast. They’re overlooking the train wreck that is Europe, for one. Even though our attention has drifted away from it, there [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on November 18th, 2011 “Bankers are good people. They support their community and they want it to survive,” is the message has for Americans. The president of the Memphis Region of Trustmark Bank addressed the Lunch Hour Republican Club yesterday at their monthly meeting at Salsa. Henson went on to discuss the state of banks in the U.S. and [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on September 21st, 2011 Memphis city elections are set for October 6th and early voting is going on right now. Shelby County GOP Chairman Justin Joy has forwarded a request to all Memphis Republicans. He says, “Last year Shelby County Republicans swept the county wide offices because we raised our voice and we showed up at the polls to make [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on August 29th, 2011 Dominionists has to be the most important word bandied around this week. Why? It is a clue to the Obama reelection strategy. It was used in a New York Times magazine story yesterday by Bill Keller entitled “Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith.” He uses the term to suggest that Republican candidates, in particular Michele Bachmann [...] [...]
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