Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listen, Skow, ya ain't a local fella till ya lived here fawty years...
Crime, poverty, racial tension. The symptoms are so depressingly similar from one urban center to another that they are often lumped together in one catchall phrase: "the problem of the cities." Politically, however, the cities make up a complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated last week. In general, the cities' voters remained loyal to incumbents, and still more so to the Democratic Party. But there were strong crosscurrents of change in some big cities. Most notable: the sudden rise to prominence of new voting blocs in Houston, Miami and San Francisco...
...energy companies and Washington policymakers are sold on shale, others are not. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain...
Taking only a short time to get better acquainted with his new sport, Casto starred as a running back in the local Pop Warner I eague. Unfortunately a move to Mobile Ala. near the beginning of his first year of high school gave him too late a start to impress the coaches at Mobile's W.P. Davidson High. Casto did his share of ben-chwarming...
...general. But co-chair Harriet Barlow says the "organizing of the party is entirely open." The party will nominate the presidential candidate at a convention next March. The strategy now is to make a splash in the press with the presidential campaign in 1980, continue organizing at the local as well as national level for the next four years, and then go for broke in 1984. Organizers say their biggest immediate problem is maneuvering onto the ballot in each of the 50 states...