DATE: Sunday, April 27, 1997                TAG: 9704240268

SECTION: CAROLINA COAST          PAGE: 2    EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: Lane DeGregory 

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FROM THE EDITOR

Whether your car has broken down or the cops have confiscated your keys, cabbies can carry you almost anywhere you need to go. Taxi drivers are especially invaluable on the Outer Banks, where there isn't any public transportation. They get called on to carry senior citizens to get their prescriptions first thing in the morning - then pick up late night partiers long after last call.

Dave McCarter hasn't had a car since he moved to the Outer Banks last winter. So he's logged hundreds of miles (and dollars) on taxi meters. He crawled into the backseat of his favorite cab driver's car and rode the roads to bring us this week's cover story.

My boss, Ron Speer, is a self-described country boy from Nebraska who would rather rope a steer than surf through cyberspace on our office's new Internet access. Technology ticked him off even more than usual this week when, as he was typing a tirade against computers, his own word processor ate the entire column (a fitting revenge of machine against man.) Read the re-written version of his editorial in ``Song of a Sailor.''

Movies are mainstay for most islanders during winter. And summer visitors enjoy the air-conditioned escape as well. So starting this week, The Coast will publish movie descriptions and schedules for Outer Banks theaters from Southern Shores through Manteo in a new feature, ``At the Movies.''

Lane DeGregory

Editor, The Coast

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