The long road that went beyond reversing police, fire benefits cuts
Holly Carter (center), a retired fire investigator, joins her colleagues as they take an elevator to the basement of city hall on Jan. 14, 2019, to drop off a petition that would increase sales tax by a half percent to restore insurance for local firemen and police officers. (Houston Cofield/The Daily Memphian)
A member of the Memphis Police Association leadership talks on “Behind The Headlines” about the long-term strategy to reverse a 2014 city council decision to cut city benefits.
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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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