New state crime grant for Memphis tops $39 million
The Memphis City Council and Chairman JB Smiley Jr. have a 9:45 a.m. committee session Tuesday. Nov. 26. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis City Council is also expected to take up gates to the Chickasaw Gardens neighborhood and more at its next session.
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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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