Young’s next steps for a Rising Memphis, and a mayoral contender opens HQ
Memphis Mayor Paul Young will deliver his State of the City address on Tuesday, Feb. 10. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s annual State of the City appearances are the next step in his “Memphis Rising” theme.
The centerpieces are appearances Tuesday, Feb. 6, at First Baptist Church Broad and at Memphis Rotary Club.
Memphis Rising is about Young’s priorities at the halfway point in his four-year term — a combination of shifting the timing of strategies and line items in the city budget to make projects move faster.
There is also a pursuit of long-term goals without the customary warnings that long-term approaches take longer and require patience.
Memphis Rising has also become about life after the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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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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