His last TV interview was in 2008, with classic MLB fireballer-turned-steroid-cheat Roger Clemens. Though, at 89, Mike Wallace was a little bit off his speed (so, by that time, was Clemens, for that matter), the interview was penetrating and fearless, like all the others Wallace had done in more than a half-century of quizzing public […]

We learned to our dismay Tuesday, just at press time, of a misfortune that has befallen state representative Curry Todd (R-Collierville), who is mentioned in this week’s cover story as the co-sponsor of last year’s pivotal Norris-Todd bill governing city/county school merger. The legislator announced to his colleagues on the House Commerce Committee Tuesday that […]

Time was when the Memphis City Council had the patent locally on eccentric conduct and discordant ways, while, across the downtown government plaza, the Shelby County Commission had a reputation for reserved, even staid behavior. No more. In the last several months, the council has been made to seem a Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Society by […]