October 06, 2011 News » Cover Feature

The Politics of Strange 

Just how did local government get to be a game of 52 Pickup - with jokers, knaves, wannabe royalty, and lots of deuces?

by Jackson Baker
On Tuesday of last week, anyone inclined to either mysticism or post-modern physics might have started looking for the tear in the universe. Something weird was leaking in. Up in the well of the Shelby County Commission was audience member Richard Fields,…

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