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DENNIS MYERS
Against the Grain
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Heller helps voters make up their mind
It was in the Elko Free Press that I found a story on U.S. Rep. Dean Heller and his efforts against cap and trade. I keep an eye out for stories on Heller in the outlying newspapers because of his habit of avoiding the urban areas in the district where most people live.
An Uplifting Performance
The driest May in Minnesota since the Dust Bowl. Venerable GM slides into bankruptcy and you shudder for the old Pontiac dealers and the retirees in Michigan. In the middle of the night, an Airbus drops out of the air into the Atlantic Ocean and the veteran traveler shudders to think of it. And the posthumous John Updike appears in the bookstore, a book of short stories ("My Father's Tears and Other Stories") and his last poems, written by "my right hand ... faithful old five-fingered beast of burden ...
Letters to the Editor
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