This might be an interesting set of columns

First the article that caught my eye - about a hot dog purveyor in North Providence:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/25land.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

Interesting - well, to me. It's about small town city council goings on. I moved not all so long ago from a small town, that I still follow the doings of - indeed one of my friend/clients is running for city council. Much as I remember the place as full of opinionated folk re issues, I never got a whiff of corruption stuff.




Second, that this article is under "news analysis", a set of columns by Dan Barry, called "This Land", that I've managed to never notice before.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/columns/danbarry/index.html

I see there's a lot of them, but I haven't read any of the others yet.