Move to take city residency referendum off ballot fails again

By , Daily Memphian Updated: March 04, 2020 3:24 PM CT | Published: March 04, 2020 3:24 PM CT
After coming up short in council committee two weeks ago, a move to take a referendum on residency for police and firefighters off the November ballot died Tuesday, March 3, with a full city council vote.

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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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