Posted 9:41 AM by Gene

To show-biz and real-estate add tourism to the list of press beats meant solely to sell. We've never taken tourist pieces seriously -- they always seem to be written by a certain upper-class expert for a certain upper-class expert -- but this one especially could have been typed in someone's sleep, and probably was. The thing about these traveling salesmen is that in this case they never venture beyond our downtown; we can assure these scribblers there's nothing happening in the nine-tenths of the town that's still mostly ghetto, nor will be, thanks to our heroic former mayor. In short, this is another piece of scrap paper written with blinders on.