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Fantasy Football Forecast: Week 17

Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 1:02 p.m.


For fantasy football owners, it all comes down to this weekend: will you win bragging rights amongst friends, or cry in your beer? The RapidDraft.com gang is here with its final installment of advice and a look back at the year in review.

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Bus Station Finances are a Mystery

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 10:07 a.m.

Mary Cashiola wonders why the taxpayers are buying Greyhound a bus station -- and where Willie Herenton fits in ...

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New Face for a New Year

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

Edith Moore wins commission seat; Justin Ford loses, but it ain't over yet ... by Jackson Baker ... Much has been made of the fact that there is suddenly to be a gap in the consecutive service on the Shelby County Commission of members surnamed Ford. Certainly that was the immediate consequence of Monday's vote on a successor to Joe Ford, who was sworn in as interim county mayor earlier this month. The surprise victory of the unheralded Edith Moore on the sixth ballot over interim mayor Ford's

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Shooting Blanks

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

by Flyer Staff ... The year ends with the Memphis City Council playing what appears to be a game of Russian roulette with the issue of funding for Memphis City Schools. When a council majority last week rejected Mayor A C Wharton's call for a 31-cent tax increase to comply with a judicial order to fund Memphis City Schools, it could propose no clear alternative — other than the time-dishonored one of eliminating waste and cutting-to-the-bone and all that. Oh, and poaching from the… ...

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An Education in Consolidation

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

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

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Forced Landing

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

A recipe for screwing up a $35 million boat dock ... by John Branston ... The Riverfront Development Corporation has posted "the truth about Beale Street Landing" on its website. I have not been a fan of this project since it was conceived. I thought it was grandiose, would take several years to complete, cost more than advertised, and overshadow faster and cheaper riverfront improvements. Now that it is under way, I hope it is a success. Memphis has the greatest riverfront in America. I have

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Mayor Ford Announces More Task Forces

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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 10:02 p.m.

Actually, it's a work very much still in progress since he'sonly been Mayor of Shelby County ... for this ... the eleventh day ...

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South Bound

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

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

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In brief: Herenton grand jury disbands

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.

The federal grand jury investigating former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton disbanded Wednesday without returning an indictment. The grand jury completes its two-year term at the end of the month and has no more hearing dates ...

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Musing on the One Clear Meaning Of It All — Herenton v. Cohen is On!

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 12:30 a.m.
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So the shaggy dog story goes on. No indictment now, but… who knows, maybe later. Maybe next year with a new Grand Jury, maybe even — at inexplicable last — with a new U.S. Attorney. (What’s Obama waiting on? The results of the 2010 midterm election?) ... Next year… Except, hold on, next year is when the race for the 9th District congressional seat is scheduled. Let’s face it: It’s always been an iffy thing. Anybody seen any Herenton-for-Congress paraphernalia? Gone to one of the

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