Strickland hopeful for local share of state sales tax revenue
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland may be closing in on his long-held goal of a share of state sales tax revenue that the state decided 20 years ago not to share with local government. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
As the end of the current legislative session nears in Nashville, Strickland said his long-held goal of getting a share of the sales tax revenue is “inching along.”
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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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