The long road that went beyond reversing police, fire benefits cuts
Holly Carter (center), a retired fire investigator, joins her colleagues as they take an elevator to the basement of city hall on Jan. 14, 2019, to drop off a petition that would increase sales tax by a half percent to restore insurance for local firemen and police officers. (Houston Cofield/The Daily Memphian)
A member of the Memphis Police Association leadership talks on “Behind The Headlines” about the long-term strategy to reverse a 2014 city council decision to cut city benefits.
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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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