State economic board hears tough economic news sprinkled with bright spots
Aggie Gaddy shops Target Memphis Central on March 19, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Tennessee’s sales tax collections plummeted 6% in April, but while clothing retailers and restaurants took the biggest blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, grocery stores and building material businesses nearly made up for it.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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