Shelby County Budget: The email trail
When the administration of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (in a file photo) sent an email Thursday, June 18 to county elected officials seeking budget particulars, the request met some opposition. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Internal emails show disagreements between the county administration and some of the countywide elected officials outside the administration of Mayor Lee Harris about budget cuts and other changes to the consolidated county budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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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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