Here come the candidates for August elections
Candidates in the state and federal primaries can begin checking out qualifying petitions in those races as well as in the first-ever school board primaries for five suburban school systems. (The Daily Memphian file)
Friday is the first day to check out and file qualifying petitions to get on the Aug. 6 ballot featuring state and federal primaries.
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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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