City Council Scorecard: Impasse and Teaching Race
Edmund Ford Sr. (top) and Ford Canale are among the city council members who attended the meeting Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The City Council Scorecard looks at the constant companion of budget season at City Hall — deciding a contract impasse between the city administration and one of the unions representing city employees. And the council is almost unanimous on the state’s ban on teaching critical race theory.
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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.