County mayor says grants program needs ‘checks and balances’
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris speaks at the Memphis Rotary Club on Jan. 27. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Mayor Lee Harris also documented his attempts to appoint new members to the Ethics Commission for years only to see them never go on the Shelby County Board of Commissioners’ agenda for a vote.
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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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