Wheel tax hike proposal rolls or goes flat with critical Monday vote
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (left) addresses the Shelby County Joint Economic and Community Development Board. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The $50 wheel tax hike on the County Commission agenda is key to Mayor Lee Harris’ plan to finance $350 million toward rebuilding the Regional One Health campus and building two new high schools.
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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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