Political Roundup: Bring on city council district maps and add a new mayoral contender
City council members Michalyn Easter-Thomas, left, and Cheyenne Johnson, right, look over maps of council districts. The redistricting committee both are members of is seeking suggestions from the public on how to redraw the districts ahead of the October Memphis elections. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Time is “tight” for the redistricting committee to make recommendations on new Memphis City Council district lines. Meanwhile, the city mapmaker with the group says the process should be more public. Plus, another joins the Memphis mayor’s race.
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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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