Second Term: The Mayor, The Council and The Middle
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland celebrates with supporters during an election night party at the Memphis Botanic Garden on Oct. 3, 2019 after winning a second term. Strickland will take the oath of office for a second term on New Year’s Day. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Analysis of what is ahead for second-term Mayor Jim Strickland and a City Council that is a mix of second-termers, new members and those in between after an election year that delivered some mandates.
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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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