Mayoral incumbent, challengers paint different portraits of city’s future
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has a full calendar of groundbreakings and openings as an incumbent campaigning on his record. Challenger Tami Sawyer, meanwhile, is appealing to fellow millennials to resist the call of other cities as well as the momentum Strickland is claiming.
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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.
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