Mayor’s ‘State of the City’ speech packed with complex goals
Memphis Mayor Paul Young speaks to the media after giving his “State of the City” address at First Baptist Church Broad. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young gave a speech crammed with goals and initiatives he says are the follow-through on the city’s two-year drop in crime.
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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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