Eye-Catching Reputation
By Business Journal Staff
Published: July 16, 2007
Share the love: Last month a column published by South Boston Patriot Ledger columnist Joann Fitzpatrick was quickly and widely disseminated locally via e-mail. Fitzpatrick lauded most every aspect of Grand Rapids (including public schools) while recounting her visit as a wedding guest -- and made comparisons to Boston. But last week's report by Keith Schneider in the New York Times Real Estate section is likely to be framed in public places. (One must wonder whether they attended the same wedding, especially when regarding Fitzpatrick's need to defend her presence in the mid-states, but in the good company of guests from both coasts, and that "there was elitism to spare, but at the same time a willingness to be charmed by a place that truly seems to represent good old-fashioned American values.")

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