Taylor says she’d have no problem with mask mandate
Memphis Housing Authority resident Roscoe Wells puts on a face mask on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Shelby County commissioners will vote Monday, Aug. 9, on a resolution urging the Shelby County Health Department to require masks be worn in public. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
County commissioners will vote Monday, Aug. 9, on a resolution urging the Shelby County Health Department to require masks be worn in public. Some on the commission are trying to avoid the politics of the county’s first mask mandate.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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