Council members jostle for share of xAI money. A Tennessee Republican has his own money. Blackburn’s been busy.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young pitched a plan for a plan to use 25% of the property tax revenues from xAI’s two Memphis data centers for community projects. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Our political roundup also looks at a push to pretty up Plough Boulevard; a possible contender for Shelby County mayor, and reactions to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.
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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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