From The Memphis Flyer:
You read that right. Our very own Mayor Willie Herenton is among 50 finalists in the 2008 “World Mayor Award,” given annually to the planet Earth’s best mayor.
From the press release: Read more »
Here’s my pick for Mayor of our fair town:
and not just because she looks like:
Because she’s the only person who can dethrone the King and is the only one who can make it safe for me to buy groceries without fearing for my life.
Here is a partial list of some other cool kids in Memphis that voting for the lovely Miss Chumney. Read more »
MAAR announced their recommendations for the City of Memphis Election tomorrow.
The most noteworthy endorsement:
Herman Morris.
I’m not sure if they’re endorsing him because he’s the best one for the job or if the board thinks he’s the best shot to dethrone the King. According to yesterdays Fox 13/Rasmussen poll, Carol Chumney and he-who-must-not-be-reelected are neck and neck. I’m voting for the Chumster. Carol. I’m voting for Carol.
Someday, I’ll be able to check the news without hearing about our own Kennedy-lite family. Here’s the real estate related Ford family news, whether you like it or not. Check out this news story, and then check out the (conspiracy?) theory about “the rest of the story”.
From the Commercial Appeal:
Memphis City Councilman Edmund Ford may be able to keep his mortuary in its Whitehaven home after all.
His landlord, Dennis Churchwell, had threatened to auction off the 5.8-acre property on Elvis Presley because of its notoriety. It’s where Ford was allowed to rack up a five-digit Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division bill, touching off a scandal that led to the resignation of the utility’s president.
But after the live auction Saturday afternoon, the property’s only bid came from a lender of the Supreme Lending Group in Memphis, who offered Churchwell $750,000 to purchase the property on Ford’s behalf…
They heard about our Mayor all the way out in Seattle. From the Seattle Times:
Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier is stepping into the ring again — against the mayor of Memphis, Tenn., for a charity fundraiser. The three-round bout between Frazier, 62, and Mayor Willie Herenton, 65, is set for Nov. 30 at The Peabody Memphis hotel and expected to raise $100,000 for the Shelby County Drug Court, an alternative program for nonviolent adult offenders with drug charges.
The best part about it is our Mayor’s humility about his own skills versus the guy who beat Muhammad Ali back in the day.
“I’m not taking this event lightly,” Herenton said at a recent news conference, where the Memphis amateur boxing champ admired Frazier’s abilities but boasted about his own skills as well.
“My hands move so fast, they scare me sometimes,” said Herenton, who regularly exercises and plans to train for two months before the fight.
Best o’ luck, Willie. Just don’t embarass us. More.
Will Hicks is an affiliate real estate broker licensed in the State of Tennessee. Prior to his career transition into real estate, Hicks was a SCUBA Instructor with the International ALERT Academy of Big Sandy, Texas and the National Academy of Police Diving, based in Miami, Florida.
Hicks says he’s been asked many times about the odd transition from SCUBA Instructor to Real Estate Agent. “Teaching people how to SCUBA dive was the most fun 10 years of my life. But you can’t eat fun.” You can’t pay the rent with it either.
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