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Los Angeles is the only major city in the country without one, which forces its public works departments to beg and scramble for funding every year.

Yet experts said money has been one of the biggest obstacles to expanding the clubhouses, which tend to flourish where there is steady funding — Michigan, for instance, pays them through its Medicaid program — but such programs have often had to scramble for donations to survive.

Neither you nor I nor anyone else has the slightest idea whether the Harris campaign’s scramble for the patriotic middle ground will reel in the potentially decisive electoral votes of Michigan or Arizona or North Carolina.

A mad scramble for the historic ball ensued among the fans in the left-center field, with a man identified in court documents as Florida resident Christian Zacek emerging with the valuable memento.

Thus begins Kaplan’s mad scramble for sanity, as the TV writer tries to plug the leaky vessel that is his life, which he chronicles in cringey detail in his book.