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...fire across the region and upstart businesses leaped from garages to the FORTUNE 500. Absent are the fuzzy-cheeked genius entrepreneurs, the companies hungry for workers and a city so wealthy it once considered giving back $1 million in tax revenues to its citizens. Says Lawrence Stone, a city councilman in Sunnyvale, which no longer has a surplus, as he recalls the glory days: "Instant millionaires. Every day there was a firm doing a public offering and spin-offs being created. Everyone was on a high-tech surfboard...
Sayles' works have a distinctive recipe: a thinly plotted story, complex characters and clever dialogue steeped in the author's characteristic 1960s- style concern for outsiders and underdogs. Politics, however, never gets in the way of getting things done. Thus Wynn Himes, the high-minded black councilman in City of Hope, reluctantly plays the down-and-dirty game of political hardball in order to gain power for his black constituents. "Basically," says Sayles, "I'm for whatever makes people's lives better and against what doesn...
...turned state's witness after pleading guilty in 1987 to murder, racketeering and conspiring with a Philadelphia councilman to extort $1 million from a real estate developer. Since then you've testified in 11 trials that have brought 52 convictions. Why did you squeal...
...disputes divide the town. The argument about widening Highway 169 from two to four lanes where it passes through the business district sputtered on for 25 years. The staunchest supporter of the status quo was John Dreesman, millionaire farmer, a director of the Interstate Bank and a former city councilman who wore his bib overalls everywhere except to church. He and his wife Agnes had two extremely bright children whose horizons soon extended far beyond Iowa...
...file and politely dissented from portions of the mayor's proposals to the state legislature. The issue was an arcane question of police arbitration procedures, but the symbolism was apparent. "You have no idea how rare it is for a department director to disagree with the mayor," says councilman Vince Ryan. "I don't think Whitmire was real pleased. But the only way she could fire the chief is because of a terrible gaffe." Still, Watson is aware of the risks: "I remember saying before I took the job that I needed three years to retirement, and the average chief...