Word: suburbanitis
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Born in New York City in 1951, Franken spent most of his early life growing up in suburban Minneapolis, where he inherited a love of politics from his parents during the politically-charged 1960s...
They had plenty of time to reflect as the afternoon wore on. Talk drifted from their freshman year together in Canaday Hall, to their notorious drag performance in the Miss Pfoho competition, to their next, uncertain years, and even beyond, to children and suburban barbecues...
...spokeswoman for the Minneapolis office, fending off the media hordes during big cases like the 1999 arrest of St. Paul housewife Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who had been on the lam for two decades. Despite the stress and the risks, Rowley, a suburban mother of four, has never worked anywhere else. She is the family breadwinner, a competitive long-distance runner, a person, by all accounts, of substance...
...greater Boston area, though, remains predominantly white. While the migration of whites to more distant suburbs has increased the suburban white population by a total of 90,000—making Boston suburbs overall 90 percent white—the report finds that Asians have moved into the suburbs in greater numbers than other minorities...
...planning types and regional thinkers has looked through that hole and seen an opportunity. Right away they started dusting off long-cherished schemes, some of which may very well come true. It's likely that any final plan will envision a major new terminal linking the Manhattan subways with suburban commuter rail systems. It will also probably re-establish several city streets that were covered over by the much despised "superblock" of the Trade Center plaza...