$13 million MATA bridge loan tops City Council agenda
The Memphis City Council approved a shorter-term, $5 million bridge loan to MATA last year to keep the bus system running. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Memphis City Council also looks at moving $6 million from riverfront projects to improvements around the future Memphis Art Museum.
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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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