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December 24th, 2009
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Author: by Chris Davis
Taxi! Lucilo Perez, described by the media as “a man willing to do just about anything to get to Memphis,” wasn’t willing to do one thing. He wasn’t willing to pay the Miami cab driver he enlisted to drive him from sunny Florida to his apartment in Midtown. According to various reports, Perez agreed to pay $3,000, or 18 times the price of a Greyhound bus ticket, for the 16-hour trip. Upon arriving in Memphis, Perez said he didn’t have…
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Local company creates an elaborate ride.
by Erica Walters
At Carriage Rides of River City, the diamonds are definitely in the rough. “We have the only barn where you can find diamonds and manure,” says David Sydnor, owner of Carriage Rides of River City in Memphis. River City is the home of a new gold carriage decorated with more than 2,000 imitation diamonds and other jewels, red and gold garlands, and dozens of angel figurines. The carriage’s lavish decorations began more than six months ago for a wedding. Since…
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Commission proposes anti-panhandling zone downtown and ban on single beer sales.
by Bianca Phillips
In its latest effort to stop panhandling downtown, the Center City Commission is focusing on beer. The commission has proposed a pair of city ordinances that would basically create an anti-panhandling zone and ban single beer sales within it. The zone would permit a few passive panhandling areas (as long as panhandlers don’t threaten, touch, or follow people they’re soliciting). “We have a responsibility to make the public environment downtown a more comfortable and safe one,” said Jeff Sanford, president…
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About “Recipe for Screwing up a $35 Million Boat Dock,” by John Branston: “You left out the part about making a simple, far more relatively affordable skate park at the tip of Mud Island — that actually would draw locals as well as out-of-towners — seem like an impossible task despite overwhelming public support at ad nauseum public meetings for over a year.” — sherman “Memphis would benefit from selling the river as our natural adventure. We don’t have…
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As the new metro charter commission excludes education from consolidation discussions, the city tries to find funding for MCS.
by Mary Cashiola
Attorney Brian Stephens says the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission is local residents’ opportunity to be their own founding fathers: “I think this is one of these historic opportunities for people to have a say in what their government looks like.” Stephens is the organizer of Rebuild Government, a group launched last week to support the work of the metro charter commission. With the Cordova Leadership Council, Stephens hosted then-Shelby County mayor A C Wharton’s first listening tour on consolidation. Rebuild…
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Animal shelter euthanizes a dog ready to be adopted, and the potential owner wants to know why.
by Michael Finger
Last month, after a raid of the Memphis Animal Services Center at 3456 Tchulahoma found animals starving to death, a report of the facility cited several other problems, including lax documentation, poorly trained workers, and sick animals housed with healthy animals. It seems the problems are ongoing. A few weeks ago, Kate Mauldin went to the shelter to adopt a pit bull she named Kiddo. Before Mauldin was allowed to bring the dog home, shelter employees euthanized him, and she’s…
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by Chris Davis
Verbatim “Like I’m in the twilight zone”: That’s how Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, aka Gangsta Boo, the Drum Squad rapper and former member of the Three 6 Mafia camp, described her recent brush with the police. In an interview with Rapstarpromo, Boo said she had nothing to do with the July 23rd armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Olive Branch, Mississippi. She described the charges as “real deal Holyfield movie conspiracy type shit,” saying “These crackers in Mississippi are…
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MATA board approves construction contract for its new terminal, lease to Greyhound.
by Mary Cashiola
The MATA board of commissioners voted unanimously this week to approve construction of a nine-acre, $15.7 million terminal on Airways and to lease a majority of the facility to Greyhound bus lines. The South Intermodal Terminal will be home to Greyhound’s Memphis operations and a small MATA customer service center, as well as a stop on about five local bus routes. The project is connected tangentially with the ongoing federal probe of Willie Herenton. In 2004, Herenton’s real estate firm…
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Owner of Las Savell Jewelry
by Bianca Phillips
After the first of the year, the sign outside Las Savell Jewelry in Midtown should probably read: “Las Savell Makes Memphis a Better Place.” The man behind the Midtown jewelry institution at McLean and Union — and the sign outside that touts the good deeds of well-known Memphians and average Joes — is retiring from the business after 30 years. But Las Savell the store, which specializes in unique fine jewelry, will remain open.Flyer: HOw did you get into the…
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About “Wisdom and the Wiseman Brothers: A Modest Proposal,” by Jackson Baker: “Wiseman — the New Ford.” — jeff About “Graduate Gold” and the connection between college graduates and a city’s prosperity: “Perhaps I’m just being an old hippy, but my four nephews ask the same questions as me. Two have graduated, two have not, but they all ended up with the same question: Isn’t ‘education’ supposed to be about something more than ‘economic development agenda’? I give it its…
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