As reporter Daniel Connolly writes today, Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery has reignited the consolidation debate.
Former Mayor Willie Herenton was never successful in his push for Memphis and Shelby County consolidation, passing the fight off almost a year ago to city and county legislative leaders who pledged to host public meetings on the topic.
Both members of the County Commission and City Council also talked about realizing functional consolidation of city and county engineering and fire departments - mergers that have been consistently thwarted over the years.
While those discussions have gone nowhere, Lowery said in a radio interview Monday that he planned to meet with County Mayor A C Wharton to reinvigorate the topic.
Jack Sammons, Lowery's chief administrative officer, said he's been reviewing a stalled proposal to merge the city and county fire departments.
Do you think Lowery has the political capital to make fire service consolidation actually happen in his less-than-90-day stint as mayor?
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