Council’s ice storm review points to broader infrastructure changes
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and MLGW President and CEO J.T. Young want to form a citizens committee to come up with options to better deal with power outages. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The city is forming a citizens group to review the ice storm response and how recent power outages have been handled by Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division.
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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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