Mask ordinance gets boost as way to promote business
Brian Bazar tends to the fire at Pizzeria Trasimeno in Crosstown Concourse May 29, 2020. Dr. Jeff Warren, a member of the Memphis City Council, says customers are more confident of their safety when businesses follow proper mask guidelines. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Enforcing the ordinance requiring face coverings at indoor public places relies on business owners' participation, says sponsor of city council measure.
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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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