Shelby County Commission keeps 9-vote Democratic majority with eight new faces
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners meets in the Vasco A. Smith Jr. County Administration Building at 160 N. Main St. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners’ new majority elected with the Thursday, Aug. 6, Election Day will retain the 9-vote Democratic majority it currently has.
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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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