For most of its 200-year history, Marion was controlled by a fairly equal distribution of both Republican and Democratic mayors, council members, auditors, treasurers, and law directors. One party would take over for a while, and then the other would supplant it at the ballot box. Most elected officials would serve for one or two … Continue reading The New World System: One Party Control, the Great Recession, and a Fiscal Nightmare for MarionReading Mode