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GARRISON KEILLOR
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La Pura Vida' beckons in L.A.
It used to be that Los Angelenos were much too cool to express outright pride in their city, feeling that boosterism is for yahoos from the Midwest, but when I was there last week I got an earful about what a good place it is from friends who never said anything like that to me before. They always talked about choking traffic, the unreality of real estate prices, the sprawl, smog, blah blah blah, and now they were saying, "I couldn't live anyplace else."
Cramming six months work into merely four
On the last day of this year's Nevada Legislature, I passed a public broadcasting television crew in the hallway outside the senate hall. They were interviewing Clark County Sen. Steven Horsford, who was telling them of the difficulty of getting anything substantial done when the legislative sessions are so short - only 120 days every other year. The pressure of time, Horsford said, doesn't permit major changes or reforms, only tinkering with the status quo.
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