Law And Out Of Order

January, 2008

Eric Klinenberg's "What City Is This?" (September) strikes a raw nerve. My favorite small local restaurant was driven out by a new landlord who said Starbucks would pay more for the >pace. I tell my friends I could blind­fold them and take them to any city in :he U.S. and, because of Starbucks, Borders, Taco Bell, Subway, RFC, etc.,they would not be able to tell what city it was. It's all part of the new America, contrary to what this country was about in the not too distant past.Ken C...