Word: localitis
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...Pacific Northwest. Subsidized by the states of Oregon and Washington, the nine-hour trip costs only $44 for coach, and you can buy segments (Portland to Seattle costs $21). With current schedules, you need to stay overnight in Seattle, but that means you can sight-see and sample local salmon washed down by a tangy microbrew. You can bring your bike along, at least as far as the Canadian border, stowing it on one of the Cascades' bicycle racks ($5 extra; reserve ahead), so you can tool around cycle-friendly Portland or Seattle...
Going along for the ride on every trip is Earl Nickles, a train buff and local barber who'll give you an on-train trim for a $5 donation. Most of the streamliners of yesteryear had barbershops, Nickles explains. They were "an amenity for business travelers from the '30s to the late '50s. It was all part of the time when train travel was gracious" www.overlandtrail.com 800-KEY-RAIL...
...Massachusetts, the two sides of the domestic partnership debate are facing off both in local suits, like those in Boston and Cambridge, and state legislation...
Last month, fledgling newspapers The San Luis Obispo and Atascadero Gazettes formalized their policies against reporting news concerning homosexuality or abortion. David Weyrich and his wife, the owners of these local papers of California, asserted this position with a front-page editorial advocating the sanctity of family "as God defines it." Todd Hansen, the weeklies' chief operating officer has referred the new policy as one that prevents the paper from "promoting the gay lifestyle or abortion...
...news section of any paper for a local community has a duty to report the events that effect the people it serves. When Ron Bast, a longtime local writer and editor of the Atascadero Gazette, asked Mr. Hansen, "How we would cover the annual AIDS bike-a-thon from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which brings 10,000 people through town, presumably most of them in support of gays," Hansen replied...