County commissioners split on whether to fight Harris’ veto
“I’m very opposed to the veto,” Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright said on “Behind the Headlines.” “We really need some more accountability for the schools.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Lee Harris’ veto of a resolution to move school board elections and the National Guard coming to town were hot topics on “Behind the Headlines.”
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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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