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...from St. Louis: It's clear the potential loss of Anheuser-Busch would be a huge blow to the city's self-esteem [July 14]. But St. Louis, Missouri, still has a beautiful urban park, a great orchestra, many art venues and an enviable architectural tradition. Dominic Ricciotti, Winona, Minnesota...
...Illinois, a Lockheed Martin vice president in New Jersey and an 85-year-old Montana lawyer with eyebrows like hamsters who still counts as a rookie since he's yet to win office after 15 tries. Among the Democratic youngsters, there's a former Republican Iraq-war vet in Minnesota, a former ranch hand and Yale Ph.D. in Nebraska and Dennis Shulman, a blind rabbi who easily won the Democratic nomination for the Fifth District in New Jersey. "We keep sending career politicians to Washington, and what do we have to show for it? A big mess," Shulman says...
...America lost its sense of humor? If it seems that way, perhaps that's because dourness is effective politics. In Minnesota, former SNL comic Al Franken hit trouble in his Senate race because of the dark legacy of his past: not drug use or infidelity but a joke he made in 1995 about 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney being a rapist. His opponent, Norm Coleman, and Coleman's surrogates jumped on the joke, accusing Franken of thinking rape is funny...
...Another bill has been introduced in the state legislature that covers texting, but until then, drivers in the Golden State are free to barrel down the freeway while manically thumbing their keypads. But don't get too cocky with your on-the-road texting. Drivers in four states - Alaska, Minnesota, New Jersey and Washington - can be cited for an infraction that in many ways defines the age of multitasking: DWT, or driving while texting...
...announced a plan to overhaul the entire air-traffic-control system. Four years later, nothing had been done. "The air-traffic system is overloaded," declared Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota. It was the fall of 1985 when he demanded that the FAA begin dealing with the atc dinosaur. But he would fail to hold the agency's feet to the fire, and his House Aviation Subcommittee would allow the FAA to waste hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of time...