County Commission delays action on mask mandate, funding
Memphis City Council member Patrice Robinson holds up a plastic glove during a press conference announcing the City's Mask Up Memphis campaign on June 22 at Whitehaven Branch Library. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The delays to the Aug. 23 commission meeting followed a rancorous debate among commissioners and between commissioners and anti-maskers who taunted one commissioner online before Monday’s session.
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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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