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Brian Remer
Guilford, Vermont

Tip O'Neill, the former speaker of the House, famously said, "All politics is local." The McDermott corollary is: "All politics may be local, but all local politics are global." Wherever the long-haul trucker lives, she is spending money locally and elsewhere. I love heirloom tomatoes from the Hudson Valley but am also partial to soft-shell crabs from Maryland. We do not need to become puritans; we need only to learn to balance our lives in reasonable ways with reasonable tolerance for ideas, large ones and small, local and distant.

Tom McDermott
Rye, New York

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