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...someone who always thought of pipe cleaners as plumbing utensils, I clearly don't spend much time at tobacco shops. I was lured into Leavitt and Pierce, a tobacco shop on Mass Ave., by its amazing marbles and tin cars. Upon close inspection the store offers more than kitsch and tobacco. Up a small catwalk and past a culturally-sensitive Native American cigar seller statue are five wooden tables with inlaid chess boards...
While not part of the original structure of Leavitt and Pierce, the loft has its own history. Originally, L&P had a back-room for men to play pool and smoke cigars. However, because of the popularity of the poolroom, it was necessary to expand it to a room upstairs. The loft area is the former balcony which lead to that poolroom upstairs. When the poolroom was eliminated years later, the balcony was kept as a place for patrons to enjoy their cigars and play chess...
...case, it was sudden. Only a year ago, Utah's young Governor, Mike Leavitt, conceived a grand confab for the fall of 1995 called the Conference of the States, to which he planned to invite his colleagues and state legislators. It was intended as a national forum on the skewed relationship between federal and state power. Most Governors considered a re-evaluation long overdue. Although the New Deal's assumption by the Federal Government of the U.S.'s primary responsibilities and powers may have been one of the century's noblest undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s...
Well, the little potentates got warned--in spades. ``Nov. 8 changed everything,'' says Massachusetts' Weld happily. It was not just that the midterm election's big winners were the Republicans, who traditionally favor state government over federal. It was that, as Leavitt says, ``The Governors are the embodiment of that level of government the people said they wanted.'' Weld, Engler and Thompson were perfect Gingrichian heroes--practical, agile, local. By the time the returns were in, any Washington pol who didn't want to hand them part of his power could be accused of being out of touch. All that...
Self-reliance has even taken hold on the governmental level. Disenchantment with all things federal has helped spur a New Federalist movement led by such Governors as Utah's Michael Leavitt and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson. Though voter turnout is lowest in elections for local government, that is the most popular form of government. In a 1993 survey, only 23% of Americans said they got the most for their tax dollars at the federal level, down from 39% in 1972. By comparison, support for spending at the local level rose from 26% to 38% during the same period...