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GARRISON KEILLOR: The old guy's technical foul It's a simple, cheerful life but with occasional grim complications that one simply ignores, such as mortality or the Seventies or the demise of the downtown department store. I love my downtown store, a block from the old stone courthouse where Alvin (Creepy) Karpis of the Ma Barker gang was tried for kidnapping in 1936, near a fine old popcorn shop, just down the street from a haberdashery where the other day I got fitted for a seersucker suit and was shown how to tie a bowtie. A great mystery, like the Trinity, suddenly made clear. You don't get this sort of instruction at a mall. DENNIS MYERS: Millennium Scholarships are in decline A few weeks ago I attended a function at which high school students, teachers, and parents were all present. Since I was planning a story on Nevada's Millennium Scholarships program, I took the occasion to chat with parents and students about their plans to use or not use the program. Letters to the Editor Cost of Living Allowance Kudos to Commissioner Butch Borasky for his dissenting vote on the new manager's employment agreement. |
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