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	Same Ol' Tune for Town Council People have asked me recently what I think the issues are for this May's Town Council election, and I have told them that immigration-related issues, which consumed the last election, seem to be subsiding this year. March 28, 2008 New Rules for The Internet Age When I was graduating from the University of Montana in the early 1990s, the School of Journalism had a room filled with computers for students to use during class or after hours to work on assignments and papers. The computers were called Mac Classics, and they were little tall boxes with tiny, 8-inch fuzzy black-and-white screens. I used the room extensively during my senior year. Nobody I knew had a personal computer in his or her room. March 21, 2008

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