How a $3M budget line item for Mud Island prompted an attempt to oust the city council chairman
Memphis City Council chairman Martavius Jones, left, and council members Jeff Warren, right. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A delayed grant for Tom Lee Park’s redesign, the Beale Street Landing dock expansion and a pool of money cobbled together years ago to jumpstart a renovation of Mud Island led to a City Council showdown.
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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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