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...Real estate prices would finally go down. Except for Nevada beachfront, of course...
...left early for Reno, Nevada, for a brief visit with Harvard Professor of Ethics emeritus Larry Lounge. Larry's doing pretty well considering the stroke he suffered while freebasing at 100 mph down Sunset Strip with a naked hermaphrodite. He soon plans to open a special ethics school for Democratic presidential hopefuls...
...West last week, calamity came in the form of high-altitude thunderstorms that raced up the spine of the Sierra Nevada through California into Oregon, Washington and Idaho. During three days, lightning sensors recorded 60,000 thunderbolt strikes on parched forests. Gusty winds fanned the flames until 480,000 acres were engulfed in the worst fires in the region since...
Equally sharp-eyed Canadian mining companies have snapped up the rights to some 40% of the new gold-digging projects in Montana, Nevada and other Western states. In Northern California, foreign investors have picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
Last week set a record. Former Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, an active player since spring, abruptly quit. There just was not enough campaign money to go around, he said. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste ended his brief toe dipping in Democratic waters, explaining he could not do his duty to Ohio and a presidential campaign simultaneously; Cuomo made the same argument in February. Others, including two Arkansan favorite sons, Senator Dale Bumpers and Governor Bill Clinton, have pleaded family concerns. Gary Hart, chased out for his lack of such family concerns, last week tentatively decided to end his quirky...