Trash talk: Memphis waste stuck in the deep freeze

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Updated: January 29, 2026 4:07 PM CT winter weather

A thaw on city streets at week’s end gives way to another cold snap complicating plans to resume solid waste services and continue clearing streets.

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.

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