Cohen discusses meeting Hagerty, and more
Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (in file photo), of Memphis, usually does not see eye-to-eye with Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, but the two got together this past week to talk for the first time. (Susan Walsh/AP file)
He also blasted the disqualification of U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson from the Olympics after she smoked marijuana. “It’s only performance-enhancing if you are in the Coney Island hot dog-eating contest.”
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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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