OSCAR’S – Impolitic Eating

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Ahh…the arrogance that only our former mayor seems to be able to get away with. His schtick has worn well with the clown-loving, back-slappers who’ve kept him in office over the the years, and he wears his brazenness like a gaudy necktie, hoping the hoi polloi won’t ask to see what’s behind the bombast and the Bombay. Until now, no one has asked any hard questions of him — no personal ones anyway — as the Smith Center has gotten built, Tony Hsieh has saved Fremont Street(?), and downtown, at its best, is slightly less of a dump than it was when he took office twelve years ago.

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Dining Hizzoner’s Way

A tall, willowy gal greets you at the entrance. She couldn’t be any nicer.

“Do you have a reservation?” she asks. “I’m sorry, we don’t,” you respond a bit sheepishly.

“I don’t think that’ll be a problem,”  is her smiling reply, as she glances over her book and the room as you spend a minute gazing at pictures of the ex-mayor on the wall.

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