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Only a decade ago, however, Massachusetts was moribund, the archetypal Frost Belt state frozen in a dead-end past. Its jobless rate was higher than any other industrial state's; plant closings and layoffs were epidemic; deficits deepened. Textile mills and shoe factories became abandoned shells, their great machines rusting. Taxachusetts became the state's unofficial nickname, and businesses, feeling oppressed by heavy levies, were clearing out for more hospitable climates...
...last month of 1985, McNeely's office collected $1,820.65 in fines, double or triple the amount his predecessors usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
There is only so much an excrimefighter can take. The utility belt clips in place, the cowl covers the gray hair: the Dark Knight Returns, striking terror into the hearts of--everyone...
...guess you all just couldn't resist the opportunity to take a swipe at George Bush's hypocrisy. In the process, you buy into the same free-market fictions which helped wreck the Rust Belt. I hope that in the future you can look beyond petty regional rivalries and corrupt conservative formulas to see and respond to the real human costs of economic change. Kim Ladin...
...impetus has come largely from the Democrats, who control all the Southern state legislatures and thus have the power to set primary dates. They have long felt that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February give the Snow Belt an inordinate voice in picking the party's nominee. A Southern primary, they hope, will amplify their region's voice and enhance prospects that the Democrats will nominate a centrist, someone who can win back significant Southern real estate and thereby shatter what has become the modern G.O.P. base of presidential politics: most of the old Confederacy as well...