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The Shelby County Board of Commissioners is expected today to once again perfunctorily approve Tax Increment Districts, this time, for two suburban towns, despite the risk that they erode county property taxes needed for education, jail, and health care.
Once upon a time, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) was a special incentive reserved for neighb...
About three weeks ago, I posted some key metrics that showed Shelby County’s ranking in comparison to Tennessee’s other 94 counties. Because of the interest shown in the comparisons, which indicated structural challenges and opportunities, I am posting more.
Here they are:
#68 – Women living in poverty
...Just when we think there’s nothing worse than Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s management of the Shelby County Jail, Mayor Lee Harris comes up with two ideas even worse: getting the State of Tennessee involved or possibly hiring a private prison company.
Mr. Bonner is right in pushing back although it’s clear to most of Shelby County that somethin...
Federal transfer payments – Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, and SNAP, for example – are big business in Shelby County and a crucial element in our economy.
That’s why changes in the federal budget by the Trump Administration has outsized impact on our community.
In the 1970s, only people in chronic ...
About every 10 years or so, Memphis discovers regionalism.
That seems once again to be where we are today.
That’s not to say that regionalism isn’t important. It is after all the competitive unit of the global economy, but here, the subject seems to come and go with little discernible impact.
