Tennessee has $61.9 billion in infrastructure needs, $6.5 billion in Shelby County
Workers repairing the cracked Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Tennessee has $3.4 billion more in infrastructure needs than it did last year. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian file)
Republican state senators question whether everything on the list is truly needed.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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