MPD cancels potential council candidate’s event at Airways precinct
Then-Memphis City Councilwoman Teri Dockery during the City’s blight and illegal dumping task force meeting on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. During a May 2023 interview, Dockery said she is considering whether to run for the District 4 City Council seat. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The meeting was canceled after Memphis City Council Vice Chairman JB Smiley Jr. asked Davis and City Attorney Jennifer Sink about it during the council’s Tuesday meeting.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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