Bonner makes first mayoral forum appearance as crime, change dominate discussion
More than 100 people showed up to watch these six mayoral candidates (nine later in the evening) at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on Thursday, June 8, 2023. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The forum at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church drew nine candidates and a crowd of more than 100 Thursday, June 8.
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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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