Strickland pushes literacy efforts, promises programs for older youth
Mayor Jim Strickland and his wife, Melanie Strickland, (right) listen to a blessing of the meal by Rev. Jessica Morris during the mayor's annual New Year's Eve Prayer Breakfast on Dec. 31, 2019, at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn. Local civic leaders, pastors and politicians were on hand to usher in the new year with prayers from Memphis clergy. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The Memphis mayor promised details at his Wednesday oath of office ceremony on a city effort aimed at "opportunity youth" between the ages of 16 and 24.
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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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