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NEAL POSTMAN,. R.I.P.

NEAL POSTMAN,. R.I.P.

• by Chris Davis

COUNCIL CANDIDATE CHUMNEY RESIGNS LEGISLATIVE SEAT

State representative Carol Chumney, matched against George Flinn in a November 13th runoff election for the District 5 city council seat, announced Monday that she is resigning her legislative seat immediately "in order that the people of District #89 will have the opportunity to choose my replacement."

• by Jackson Baker

CITY BEAT

HERENTON'S NEXT FOUR YEARS The election is almost a week old, so obviously it's high time to chart out the next four years. The fate of Herman Morris and The Pyramid, those frisky Fords, Dr. Carol Johnson, taxes, consolidation, some key staff vacancies, and a gender gap are some of the issues facing Mayor Willie Herenton as he winds up his third term and looks forward to his fourth.

• by Ed Weathers

PLANET OF THE APES

PLANET OF THE APES

• by Chris Davis

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Ed Weathers

City Reporter

Confession of lawyer's murder is challenged in court, and other news.

• by Flyer Staff

LOGAN YOUNG GETS TARGET LETTER FROM U.S. ATTORNEY

University of Alabama football booster Logan Young now expects that federal prosecutors will ask a grand jury to indict him as early as this month. The United States Attorney's office in Memphis has asked Young to appear before a federal grand jury investigating the case that has been in the news for almost three years.

• by Ed Weathers

Fall Fashions

Fall Fashions

• by Mary Cashiola

THE WEATHERS REPORT

ONE CLASSROOM UNDER GOD ... IÕm eight years old. I donÕt understand that I donÕt have to say the pledge, I donÕt have to say Òunder God.Ó Hey, you donÕt want to make Miss Brawley mad. So I say Òunder GodÓ the way the President and Joe McCarthy and Miss Brawley want me to. . . .

• by Ed Weathers

Writing on the Rails

Live, from a train in the northern plains

• by Paul Gerald

FROM MY SEAT

SERIAL SENSATIONS You can have the Super Bowl and the Final Four. Take the Masters, Daytona 500, and NBA Finals while you're at it. Just leave me the World Series . . . still the greatest spectacle in sports. A few thoughts as the Marlins and Yankees celebrate the event's 100th anniversary:

• by Frank Murtaugh

Short Cuts

Robert Pollard's enduring school of rock, back in session.

• by Chris Herrington

POLITICS: Tag Team

Citizens who attended Monday's meeting of the Shelby County Commission acquired a good deal of revealing information.. They learned that FedEx pilot Cletus McDonel, a petitioner on Monday, runs a 9-minute mile. They learned that Commissioner Walter Bailey is a professed lover of Shakespeare. And they learned, perhaps most importantly, that a power struggle exists on the commission between veterans and rookies, or between haves and have-nots, or, as one dissatisfied commissioner evidently would have it, between slaves and their masters.

• by Jackson Baker and Jackson Baker

Done Deal ...

But the election lingers in two key runoffs.

• by Jackson Baker

POLITICS: Ed Gets Moving

When Republican Ed Bryant looks into a crystal ball, as he did last week for the Shelby County Young Republicans, the former 7th District congressman sees himself running for the US. Senate in 2006. And he sees "the current governor," Democrat Phil Bredesen, doing the same thing.

• by Jackson Baker

The Kudzu Blues

Playwrights Forum gets Southern with Cymbals and Sounding Brass.

• by Chris Davis

Love American-Style

The Coen brothers' take on romantic comedy.

• by Chris Herrington

Postscript

Flyer readers respond.

• by Flyer Readers

A Grade-A Mistake

How American education creates simple-minded citizens.

• by Ed Weathers

Herenton's Next Four Years

Lots of pending appointments and some new faces will get the mayor's attention.

• by John Branston

Election Scofflaws

Election Scofflaws

• by Editorial

Current Events

The fallout of one nuclear family.

• by Leonard Gill