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2008-04-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-04-08 06:34|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 really whiney on the Old Town part. Old Town Mexican Cafe is a glorious place for me - fresh tortillas, great tacos and chimis and the margaritas! God, I'm making myself hungry....Oh yeah, the papers mostly suck - UT Sports isn't bad, but the rest has gone wayyyyy downhill. I've NEVER liked the LAT

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-08 08:25|| 2008-04-08 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The underwhelmingly ordinary Arizona paper = The Arizona Republic.

Frank - Consider the source. Once you've had Mexican food in Minneapolis, everything else is 'krep'...

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-08 10:59|| 2008-04-08 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The UT is in dire straits with layoffs and declining subscriptions. No wonder. It really is a rag. I don't read it anymore. I don't feel like I'm missing much because they never reported the real news anyway and it's what they don't report that worries me. It's been clear for a long, long time now that this town is being run by developers who are some of the biggest advertisers the UT has left. They've ruined it. Hundred year old water mains break on a regular basis and flood the streets. The streets are full of potholes. The freeways are clogged with traffic. The police and fire fighters are under paid and bailing out. And then there is the pension fund for city employees...or should I say the unfunded pension obligation? The mayor was on TV a while ago crowing about a recently completed audit of FY 2006 city finances. Well, that's cool because FY 2009 is right around the corner. It used to be a nice little town. Now it's just an overgrown LA suburb with crumbling infrastructure. But you'd never know it from reading the UT.

As for the LA Times, I used to try to read it but I couldn't. They'd beat around the bush for six or seven paragraphs before getting to the point. I just didn't have time for it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-04-08 15:29|| 2008-04-08 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 But Frank G is correct about the Mexican food in Old Town. It really is good.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-04-08 15:30|| 2008-04-08 15:30|| Front Page Top

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