The campaign to change city government
Next year’s Memphis mayoral election to replace term-limited incumbent Jim Strickland is the latest in a long line of mayoral and city council races with historical implications. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Next year’s mayoral race will have historical implications, and there’s been quite a bit of maneuvering to get city charter amendments on the Nov. 8 ballot this year.
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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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