Through rough reporting, Clark insisted on issues

Friday, April 6, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 4:32 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008

When I was assigned to cover John G. Clark’s mayoral campaign, I was told I might need to save four or five hours out of my day for my first interview. Hogwash, I thought. There’s no way a man would be able to chat away about city politics off the cuff for that long. I figured 6:30 p.m. on a Sunday night ought to be a good starting point.

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