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Well, not exactly, but getting useful information from Tennessee high schools is anything but elementary.
By John Branston |
December 1, 2009
The goal of public elementary and secondary education is to get students to successfully graduate from high school. So what number is missing in the annual Tennessee school report card from the Department of Education?
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Out next mayor will have a lot on his plate. Let's hope money isn't the main course.
By John Branston |
November 2, 2009
By the time this issue of Memphis magazine comes out, Memphis will have a new mayor. And whoever it is, two things are certain.
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When it comes to sports reports, are we getting played?
By John Branston |
October 1, 2009
Tennis is booming. Skateboarding is booming.
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Local car dealers are idle while awaiting their fates.
By John Branston |
July 1, 2009
The Saturn, built by General Motors in Spring Hill, Tennessee, was supposed to be a different kind of car from a different kind of car company when it was launched in 1990. And for a while it was, building such loyalty that owners flocked to homecoming picnics and boasted of racking up 200,000 miles or more on their odometers.
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In the market for a mansion? You're in luck.
By John Branston |
May 1, 2009
The million-dollar home in greater Memphis, which went from rare to commonplace in less than ten years, has become a shopper's bazaar for wealthy bargain hunters. The weak economy, the stock market crash, high interest rates on jumbo mortgages, and the building boom that came to an end last year have produced a glut of homes and falling prices in the high-end market.
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How about a plan that would keep the economy going by rewarding the thrifty?
By John Branston |
March 1, 2009
The stimulus bill, at this writing, is $920 billion and rising. What would help get the economy going, or keep it from going off a cliff?
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U.S. Senator Bob Corker put carmakers in the hot seat.
By John Branston |
February 1, 2009
As a young man fresh out of the University of Tennessee, Bob Corker drove a Pontiac LeMans or a Ford Mustang, worked in construction, and was a card-carrying union member in a union town. These days, the Republican United States senator from Chattanooga is a television fixture for his grilling of labor leaders and top executives of Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler in congressional hearings about the bailout of Detroit's Big Three.
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The Commercial Appeal takes drastic measures to cut costs
By John Branston |
December 1, 2008
When I worked for The Commercial Appeal in the 1980s, the bureau system was one of the strengths of the newspaper and gave it a regional presence. So I was sorry but not surprised to hear that suburban bureaus may go the way of regional bureaus as the paper circles its wagons and tries to shrink its way to prosperity.
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