Local leaders ask Buttigieg for more airport funding
“This is about making sure our supply chains are more resilient and our economy is more competitive in the face of any challenge,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said at the grand opening of Memphis International Airport's new de-icing facility. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
“The terminal is what we want redone now,” Mayor Jim Strickland said at the opening of the $309-million de-icing facility at Memphis International.
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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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