Politics Podcast: The city budget and a view from the council

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 08, 2020 8:23 PM CT | Published: May 08, 2020 5:18 PM CT

City council budget committee chairman Martavius Jones talks about the city budget season and the effect of the pandemic on city finances.


Produced by Natalie Van Gundy

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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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