Young hopes to dodge tax hike as budget looms
“Our goal is not to have a tax increase this year,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young said at a town hall Wednesday, March 26, 2025. “We want to make do with what we have.” (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young also heard more concerns about xAI at the One Memphis forum Wednesday, but promised to devote its tax revenue to specific public projects in Southwest Memphis.
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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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