County Commission bans renamings for Trump, condemns Capitol insurrection
The Shelby County Commission has barred the county from renaming anything in honor of President Donald Trump, seen here in December 2020. (Evan Vucci/AP file)
With no discussion, Shelby County commissioners approved Monday, Jan. 25, a resolution that forbids the county from renaming any of its property, roads, bridges or buildings in honor of former President Donald Trump.
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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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