Chairman’s new committee causes rancor in County Commission
When chairman Willie Brooks created a study group Monday on possible local government changes without a vote, some commissioners call it a consolidation committee in all but name, causing chairman Reginald Milton to quit.
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Shelby County Commission city-county consolidation Reginald Milton Tami Sawyer Edmund Ford Jr. Mark Billingsley Brandon MorrisonBill Dries on demand
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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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