Thank God the stuff I dig doesn’t cost a lot. Everybody loves a bargain. But, frankly, the things I wear and use to clutter my crib just aren’t made any more. I’ll find myself elbow deep in piles of crap nobody wants in order to score some retro gem. Whether it’s a blue sharkskin […]
Christian Schimke
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Library in limbo: How low can it go?
Administrators of the Monroe County Library System are “sitting on pins and needles” these days, says MCLS director Richard Panz, but not in anticipation of the long-delayed fifth Harry Potter book. In this case, it’s the figures for the county’s share of the library system’s 2003 budget that are late — over three months […]
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Predatory loans: on borrowed time?
In the late 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura teamed up for the film Predator, America was deregulating and otherwise fantasizing its way into economic trouble. Soon enough, ordinary working people spied some monsters among the dollar signs. One was called consumer debt, with credit-card marketers getting top billing. There are stealth predators, […]
