Tag: Memphis
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Crime prevention doesn’t need new laws. It needs the money Congress already promised.
Let’s talk about crime prevention, because it’s the question I get asked most in Memphis, and the honest answer starts with what a freshman member of Congress can and can’t do. Here’s the thing – a first-term representative doesn’t walk in and pass landmark legislation. Seniority runs the committees, leadership runs the floor, and a…
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The new veterans bill is full of good ideas. Disabled veterans are paying for all of them.
Let’s talk about veterans, because there’s a 554-page veterans bill moving through Congress right now, and most of what’s in it is good. The way it’s paid for is not – and they’re hoping you don’t read that far. It’s called the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act – H.R. 9237. It bundles more than…
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xAI’s turbines are poisoning Boxtown’s air – and the Trump DOJ just moved to kill the lawsuit
Imagine being a slave – and not being told you were free until two years after the fact. That’s Juneteenth. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 – declaring the enslaved people in the rebel states free. But paper doesn’t free anybody on its own. It took Union soldiers showing up – and…
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When they yell about “Medicare fraud,” count the money
Republicans rant about Medicare fraud. But the real money isn’t street-level crooks – it’s private Medicare Advantage plans overbilling taxpayers by more than a trillion over a decade. Here’s the trick, and who’s cashing in.
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Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. You helped pay for it.
I thought everyone knew this – but I guess it bears repeating since I’ve seen so many posts defending Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. CNN looked at how Musk got there, and the truth is Tesla and SpaceX don’t exist in the form they do today without government help. Our tax dollars ended up saving…
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A bill in Congress would force data centers to come clean before they break ground
There’s a bill in Congress that would make it harder to pull off what happened in Memphis with xAI. It’s called the AI Data Center Site Selection Transparency Act. It says that before a company can build one of these giant data centers, it has to come out into the open first. Six months ahead…
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Tennessee turned down $27 billion. Then it lost more hospitals than any state but Texas.
Let’s talk about Healthcare. Tennessee has lost sixteen rural hospitals. That’s more than any state but Texas. One of them was Haywood Park, in Brownsville. It closed in 2014. The building sat empty for eight years. For most of that time, if you had a heart attack in Haywood County, the closest ER was in…
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The rent on the sign isn’t the rent you pay
The listing says $1,095. By the time you sign, it’s $1,250 – and you paid $50 just to apply. Here’s the fee racket renters face, and the bill that fixes it.