Mayor Young heckled during State of the City speech
Memphis Mayor Paul Young speaks to the media after giving his “State of the City” address at First Baptist Church Broad. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Memphis Mayor Paul Young pushed his way through a speech crammed with goals and initiatives he says are the follow through on the city’s two-year drop in crime. Some in the audience questioned the city’s cooperation with the federal surge of law enforcement.
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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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