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 4th, 2012 Memphis tea party chairman and talk radio host Mark Skoda discusses its diversity in this article: www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/tea_party_not_monolithic.html [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 1st, 2012 When the Tea Party began to go on the march in the summer of 2009, Mark Skoda was a champion of conservative values and vehemently opposed to Obamacare. Who would have guessed that two and a half years later he would throw away his adamant beliefs and endorse the father of Obamacare, Mitt Romney? The Memphis [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on January 14th, 2012 WMPS the Point radio host Mark Skoda has written a piece at americanthinker.com entitled “South Carolina Can Settle the 2012 Un-Civil War.” In it, he argues that Republicans should just lie back and let Romney win the primaries. Skoda recounts that he’s been to the primaries in New Hampshire and saw “people fired up” over Romney. [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on March 21st, 2011 Justin Joy was elected chairman by acclamation at yesterday’s Shelby County Republican Party convention. He succeeds Lang Wiseman. You can hear him tomorrow at the GOTV monthly meeting. He will be one of the guest speakers and will discuss Obamacare, Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling in Florida and future plans. Also appearing will be Memphis Tea Party [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 21st, 2011 Today WMPS, The Point, launches in Memphis. The AM1210, FM 87.7 conservative talk show station is the brainchild of Tea Party organizer Mark Skoda. Here’s the Monday through Friday lineup: Starting at 4 a.m. is First Light, followed by The Steve Gill show from 5-8, Mike Gallagher 8-11, Matthew Hill 11-noon. Noon to 2 is News & [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 14th, 2011 A week from today, Memphians can tune into a new talk radio station. WMPS, The Point, will launch at 4 a.m. on Feb. 21 on AM 1210 and FM 87.7. A collaboration between Memphis Tea Party activist Mark Skoda and radio owner George Flinn, the Point wants listeners to “fall in love with talk radio again.” What [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on December 29th, 2010 It was rather shocking to see Mark Skoda’s picture on the front page of The Commercial Appeal this morning. Don’t get me wrong; he deserves to be there. The Tea Party leader has gotten national attention, but is often overlooked by our local media. But a conservative is out of sync with the CA’s political slant. Not [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on October 28th, 2010 “I am pleased with the way things turned out,” said Mark Skoda, Memphis Tea Party chairman, outside the NAACP on Vance yesterday. He and 25 others gathered to protest the Commercial Appeal columnist Wendi Thomas’ hit piece on Charlotte Bergmann Sunday, in which Thomas told Bergmann go to “the porch.” Although the Memphis NAACP chapter declined to [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on September 21st, 2010 
Plainly declaring she “Can Win,” Charlotte Bergmann opened her 9th Dist. Congressional Headquarters at Poplar and Yates Tuesday Charlotte Bergmann and Mark Skoda compared notes before Mark put Charlotte on his radio program. Charlotte Bergmann and Virginia Vagen, Georgeann King’s mother, get a picture at the opening. [...]
By Georgeann King, on August 29th, 2010 If you like listening to Memphis Tea Party Chairman Mark Skoda on KWAM (990), you will be happy to know that soon there will be more of him. His show, which has aired Monday and Thursday mornings, will become a daily show as of September 13. But instead of airing from 8 to 9 a.m., the [...] [...]
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