When a City Sells Land to a Teenager: Bureaucracy Meets Boy Wonder

<![CDATA[Let us raise a glass to American municipal governance, where land deals get rubber-stamped, paperwork gets misplaced, and a 17-year-old nearly becomes a real estate mogul. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. Wausau, Wis., bless its Midwestern heart, almost handed over three riverfront properties to a teenage boy who isn’t old enough to buy spray paint without a parent present.]]>