City Council controversial health care proposal, explained
“Prolonged discussion on items like benefits for part-time council members is a distraction,” Memphis City Council member Jerri Green said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The City Council votes Tuesday, Feb. 6, on extending the city’s health insurance coverage for council members who serve two terms. The calculations are complex and the authority for such a move is controversial.
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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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