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Community Takes Exception To Request - 2004-02-12
While Walter Buschmann simply wants to transfer his business next door, community members testified that Buschmann's Let's Play arcade encourages gambling and goes against the family values of the community. Buschmann bought 8326 Harford Road about a month ago in order to move Let's Play, which currently occupies 8328 Harford Road. He has applied for a special zoning exception to continue operating his arcade, which he has run at that leased location for about three years.

Community and business leaders at a zoning hearing raised concerns about the business. Charles Rehm, president of the Parkville Police Community Relations Council, said he has heard complaints since Buschmann increased his video poker machines to 13 last July.
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Guest editorial: This is your proselytizer speaking - 2004-02-12
Flight 34 had just taken off from Los Angeles for New York last Friday morning when the pilot's voice was heard throughout the cabin. We all know how calming a ritual that can be: the generic tone of mellow understatement that is so reassuring a tool of modern pilots. The writer Tom Wolfe traces it to Chuck Yeager, the daring war ace and low-key test pilot with the "poker-hollow West Virginia drawl" emulated by successive generations of pilots.

But Flight 34 suddenly sounded as if the stick was in the hands of Elmer Gantry, not Chuck Yeager.
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