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30th June 2010

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Perhaps the most telling tidbit in LaHood’s life is that he has resided in Washington for 30 years without once getting a haircut here. A man truly lives where he gets his haircut, and that is in Peoria.

The Washington Post, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is charging ahead in his political career, by Ashley Halsey III

This is freakishly true. My first two years of college, when I probably still considered Wilmington ‘my home,’ I got my hair cut whenever I went back to Massachusetts, at Rick’s on Route 62. Junior and senior year, I got it cut at a few different places in College Park. Right now, I need a haircut, but I just don’t feel comfortable getting one in New York City.