County Commission Scorecard: Part of a penny and voting as Governor is signing
Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright (in a file photo) asked lots of questions before ultimately joining those who voted yes on the resolution urging Gov. Bill Lee to veto the bill banning public schools from teaching critical race theory. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The commission scorecard looks at smooth sailing for the county budget season past the money left on the table from part of a penny, and why the commission’s resolution on the state’s critical race theory ban still matters.
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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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