Tough past negotiations position city well as TVA question reaches critical point
TVA president Jeff Lyash met with Memphis City Council members on Nov. 13, 2019. Memphis is preparing to make some big decisions about the future of Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division. (Daily Memphian file)
The city’s nearly century-old relationship between Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and the Tennessee Valley Authority reaches a critical point with some options, thanks to hard past negotiations.
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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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