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Memo to: Hillary Clinton, Her Indescribable Holiness from: Irv, New York Impresario re: your Presidential Gig Hillary, baby, Yes, I know the last time I offered you show biz advice, it was about your senatorial shtick. I said it wouldn’t work, and offered several reasons. You were right and I was wrong. But now you’re looking at a bigger league. You’ve put yourself in a great position to have a shot at the presidential gig. The Democratic Leadership Committee has just made you chairman (you don’t mind being referred to as a man, do you?) of the effort to write...

ASHLAND, Ore. — Like Winona long ago, Ashland's lumber industry is a part of its history. Winona's timbering stopped when it started to run out of trees. Ashland's stopped when it started to run out of spotted owls. When the lumber stopped fueling Ashland's economic engine, it was used to board up storefronts. Sandra Slattery, Ashland Chamber of Commerce executive director, remembers when lumber pulled out. She calls them the "bowling ball days." "That was when you could throw bowling balls down the street during winter and not hit anyone," Slattery said. Many residents who lived there during the late...