Noisy debate doesn’t deter County Commission from unanimous vote on ethics ordinance

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 05, 2025 10:11 PM CT | Published: May 05, 2025 10:11 PM CT

County Commissioners are certain to clash again over a specific change of how the county ethics commission is structured. Meanwhile the commission voted down a pay raise for the next commission but approved a pay raise for the next sheriff.

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Shelby County Commission Michael Whaley Edmund Ford Jr. Britney Thornton Amber Mills

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Bill Dries

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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