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Political Roundup: Budget season, Kelsey’s pardon, Blackburn and Cohen on the courts

By , Daily Memphian Published: April 07, 2025 4:00 AM CT

Memphis Mayor Paul Young presents his budget proposal Tuesday, April 8, for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

And at his March 26 One Memphis forum in Cordova, Young said he hoped the budget would not include a property-tax hike.

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

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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