Before television, or telegraph, or telethings, a wanderer had a place in the scheme of civilization. He was a roving reporter, impromptu gossip, and freelance fabulist. Coming into a town like Richmond,
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necessarily, but nothing at all about Terre Haute, and they don’t believe in either dragons or elves, having never personally met anyone with any practical experience regarding one or the other. In short, they know very little about the world outside of Richmond, Indiana, but believe they were well informed about things because a young,
current owner of, fresh-faced, female, ethnic reporter for the T. V. station in Decatur lied to them about things every evening in the comfort of their own living room. Dorian stopped in Richmond and had a cup of coffee in the diner on the interstate. He wished he could set up in the square and tell the population of Richmond of the wizards he met in Tuscola, Illinois; and about the horrible flock of griffins he barely escaped on a bluff just outside of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, but he knew they would never believe these things. They were sophisticated enough to know that, were there griffins on a bluff anywhere in the state of Missouri, Walter Cronkite would have mentioned it before now. The wanderer, once occasion for celebration on his arrival, had become an object of suspicion. His place in the world had been usurped by “anchorpeople” and young, female, ethnic “reporters,” who never saw anything but the facts and, in doing so, ended the magic of the train whistle, the place beyond the fields we know, and fairyland, leaving everything and everyone to wallow in banality. Dorian Taylor Top Forty an ebook and , I think available as a book, at least someone I talked to said they had a copy.
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Richins said that one negative side effect to not having an opponent during the election is that there can be less communication with residents and voters because an opponent allows the issues to come out with opposing viewpoints.
Will White, Tucson manager for Land Advisors Organization, said there is “substantial room to grow back to a healthy number” but the key is the availability of land. Although the market has made “big runs” historically after downturns, White is a bit conservative now.
He said Jones deserves praise for keeping the city on a steady course during one of the toughest economic downturns in a century. Jones kept the city s books balanced, raised its credit rating to a new high and was a leader in local economic development.
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