Council passes drag-racing ordinance, delays Byhalia decision again
Muscle cars pass by the lights on Beale Street while cruising B.B. King Boulevard in Downtown Memphis on May 9, 2020. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Proposed rules delay action on the city adding a $2.6 million community grants program to its next budget.
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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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