Mayor Harris wants to add funding for crime lab to budget
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris shas proposed a $5.5 million budget amendment to fund a local crime lab. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
County commissioners wrestled with budget amendments Wednesday totaling well past the $100 million mark, including the county mayor’s proposal.
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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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