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Greenery

Matt Welch | 5.9.2005 12:01 PM

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Speaking of People's Republics, David Mamet had a funny two-act op-ed in the Sunday L.A. Times about Santa Monica, where lawmakers are trying to make cash-cows out of hedgerows.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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