City and county navigate difficult budget seasons
Memphis Mayor Paul Young participates in the Shelby County Joint Economic and Community Development Board meeting March 21. (Sophia Surrett/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis City Council members weigh a 75-cent tax hike as Shelby County commissioners have to make some decisions about change to the funding for a Regional One Health rebuild.
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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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