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In My Backyard

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Monday, April 11, 2005

"Desperate Housewives" is just the latest to offer up a depiction of the "seamy" side of suburban life. Writer D.J. Waldie takes issue with that view in his memoir of the California working class tract development where he grew up, and lives to this day.

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Glenn Reynolds, Writes the blog, Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee
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In My Backyard

D. J. Waldie, writer, Public Information Officer of the city of Lakewood since 1978 and author of the soon-to-be reissued, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (W.W.Norton, April 18, 2005)
- on his memoir of his working class suburb
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Housing Crunch

Julia Vitullo-Martin Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Insitute
- on budget cuts to HUD that will decrease day-to day operations of urban housing authorities
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Alyssa Katz Editor of ...

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