Commission races shaping up. Mayoral hopefuls’ campaign filings. Memphis loses desegregation leader.
Shelby County Commissioners Mick Wright (left) and Brandon Morrison (right) attend a committee session Dec. 11, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The 13 races for the Shelby County Board of Commissioners are shaping up ahead of 2026 elections that will see at least a majority of the body’s seven seats change hands because of term limits.
Dec. 22 is the first day candidates can check out qualifying petitions and file them with the Shelby County Election Commission.
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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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