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		<title>Read Before You React</title>
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As Dr. King said in his letter from the Birmingham jail, &#8220;We are caught in  an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.   Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.&#8221;
These words could not be more true today.
Whether you live in Memphis,  Bartlett, Lakeland or anywhere in Shelby County, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=470</link>
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		<title>Legal Opinion Requested on Unethical Use of County School for Campaign Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebuild Government has asked the Shelby County Attorney&#8217;s Office for a legal opinion on the use of a public school &#8211; Shelby County Schools Riverdale Elementary Schools &#8211; for a campaign event. 


We believe that public buildings should not be used by elected officials as their own, because every taxpayer pays for them.  This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=457</link>
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		<title>Shelby County Cities&#8217; Tax Rates Highest In State</title>
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Here are the seven cities in Tennessee with the highest cumulative  property tax  rates:

 
1)       Memphis
2)       Bartlett
3)       Germantown
4)       Oak Ridge (the part in Anderson County)
5)       Millington
6)       Collierville
7)       Oak Ridge (the part in Roane County)
8)       Arlington
In other words,  based on the latest report by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=454</link>
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		<title>Statement to Commercial Appeal about Naysayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Commercial Appeal asked us for a statement about yesterday&#8217;s email which was posted to our blog.
Here&#8217;s our statement:
We included their (Mayor Goldsworthy and Mayor McDonald) statements because they acknowledged that doing nothing is not an option.  They also made the important point that we should listen to each other and consider new ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=451</link>
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		<title>A Game Changer for our Community&#8217;s Future</title>
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At times of  great opportunity, there are inevitably those who will claim that doing anything  to improve our situation will cause the sky to fall.  They were  there when Fred Smith came up with the idea that reinvented global  commerce.  They were there when Sam Phillips imagined the first  notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=447</link>
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		<title>Why Do We Need a New Charter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
It&#8217;s a question we&#8217;re often asked.  The answer is simple:  a clear sense of urgency that we have to do better as a community.
For about 15 years, Shelby County has been losing jobs, income, young talent, and people at historic levels.  If these trends continue 15 years into the future, Memphis and Shelby County [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=439</link>
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		<title>Doing Nothing Is Not An Option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a rare opportunity for any of us as citizens to make history.  That&#8217;s  precisely the opportunity we have with passage of a new charter.

It&#8217;s been 40 years since we had a chance to get government right in our  community and to control our own destiny.  It&#8217;s a chance that may not come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=436</link>
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		<title>Charter Commission Files New Charter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ending its final meeting yesterday, the Charter Commission will file today the new charter for a new government with the Shelby County Election Commission.  As one of the final issues before them, commissioners voted today to set the new charter&#8217;s effective date for September, 2014.
Rebuild Government would like to express  gratitude to the 15-member commission for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=431</link>
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		<title>Citizen-Centered Charter Controls Spending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the last week of work for the Charter Commission winds to a close, its  members continue their strong focus on a citizen-centered charter that controls  spending and sets up systems so taxpayer dollars are spent wisely.
The Commission last week set in a place a five-year tax freeze to make sure  the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=429</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Care About Vote on Consolidation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Special to the Tri-State Defender
Darrell Cobbins is chairman of Rebuild  Government,  a nonprofit organization focused on educating and gathering input from  Shelby County citizens around the new metro government charter process.







Darrell
Cobbins




In less than 130 days, voters will have a chance to participate in an  historic vote – whether or not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rebuildgovernment.org/blog/?p=422</link>
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