Re: Growth without Change?

[Don Coombs <mushroom@moscow.com>]

> Priscilla Salant wrote:
> 
> This morning's Daily News carried an article about the new
> census figures for Latah and Whitman County.  Its headline
> read "Growth without Change."  I wasn't sure how the
> reporters came up with that particular theme.

I think you do that without bothering to think. I'd blame an
editor more than the reporters.

And I liked the last paragraph in the story, a quote: "If
you don't grow you're going to stagnate and die, but I'd
like to see us stay about the same."

That made me wonder how many people in California -- where
the lights actually do get turned off now and then -- are
happy that they're "not stagnating." People in California
and elsewhere need to get their breeding under control.

Don Coombs