Lowery warns against complacency as county mayor race heads to Aug. 6
Democratic nominee for Shelby County Mayor Mickell Lowery held a fundraiser in Eads on June 20, 2026. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Lowery in Eads, Taylor in Piperton. The political roundup is on the campaign trail and includes a D.C. roundup with reaction to the memorandum of understanding with Iran.
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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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