Opinion: Why is the state’s focus on redistricting not matched by equal attention to BlueOval City?
Andre Jones
Andre D. Jones is a Memphis-based small-scale real estate developer who cares about his neighbors in Memphis and across the state.
“The same people who can summon a special session to redraw congressional maps in service of a national political project have had remarkably little to say about how that same national political project cost thousands of jobs and four years of economic momentum in Tipton, Fayette, Haywood and Shelby counties.”
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