City government’s low vaccination rate spotlights larger solid waste issues
Memphis sanitation workers pick up garbage and yard waste in the High Point Terrace area. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
A low vaccination rate is just one of the problems the city faces as it wrestles with chronic problems surrounding solid waste disposal.
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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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