{"id":28214,"date":"2024-10-12T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28214"},"modified":"2024-10-12T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:45:11","slug":"saturday-update-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/12\/saturday-update-284\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news today is that Mayor Young has <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/clean-slate-mayor-young-replacing-mata-board-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replaced<\/a> MATA&#8217;s entire board of directors. WELL DONE, MR. MAYOR. I know of no comparably-sized city with a public transit system as bad as Memphis. MATA tends to trend toward last in results and toward first in spending. A world-class city has world-class public transportation and we are FAR from meeting that standard.<\/p>\n<p>Any of my readers got an upcoming trip to Las Vegas planned? Pro tip: When you get there, ride the bus. Note how clean, efficient, and convenient it is.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada has flipped red on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/maps\/president\/2024\/no-toss-up\/electoral-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics&#8217; no toss-up states map<\/a>. That brings the projected electoral count to 302 for the Trumpster and J.D. to 236 for Harris and Walz.<\/p>\n<p>Beatles tribute band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/mersey-beatles-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mersey Beatles<\/a> plays the Orpheum Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bardog has parfaits on its brunch menu now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBardogTavern%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02bhkE7Z4unzdsL7m3bc9rHG2kLbeQckeHRWJ9q2gPYiXvEmqyMshY2QJhZrTYrdDzl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"699\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the lack of posts this week. The ailment is back in my legs &#8211; especially my left one, which is so swollen that it hurts to walk. Back early next week with more news.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news today is that Mayor Young has replaced MATA&#8217;s entire board of directors. WELL DONE, MR. MAYOR. I know of no comparably-sized city with a public transit system as bad as Memphis. MATA tends to trend toward last in results and toward first in spending. A world-class city has world-class public transportation and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/12\/saturday-update-284\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28216,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28214\/revisions\/28216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->