Zach Patton

Recent Articles

• Rhode Island Might Get a Lot Less Artsy
• May 26, 2008
• Like most states, Rhode Island is in a budget crunch. One partial solution, proposed by legislators last week, is a cap on art for public ...

• The Smart Car on Steroids
• May 23, 2008
• Smart cars are here (even if they're not exactly setting the world on fire). So maybe they're not as fuel-efficient as people expect, and maybe ...

• Rooty Tooty Fresh and Torn Down
• May 22, 2008
• More news today from Seattle:  Remember that Denny's that had been declared a historic landmark, preventing the owner, the Benaroya Companies, from tearing down ...

• The New York Times Discovers Kentucky
• May 21, 2008
• The New York Times special "T Magazine" issue on summer travel came out this Sunday, and it includes a feature on the Artists ...

• Next Crime-Fighting Innovation: Plaid Knickers and a Tam O'Shanter
• May 20, 2008
• Police in the town of Pine Lawn, Missouri, are getting a new vehicle: Pine Lawn aldermen voted 5-0 Monday night to support Chief Rickey Collins' ...
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• More Cameras = More Famous People!
• May 15, 2008
• Cities contemplating increasing the number of surveillance cameras may want to consider London's recent experience as a cautionary tale -- the city's huge camera system ...
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• Is This America's Stupidest Bike Lane?
• May 9, 2008
• Slate has posted this great video of some of the "stupidest" bicycle lanes in America. Earning the top prize? A 20-foot stretch of ...
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• Alaska's Sarah Palin: Hottest Lego Governor?
• May 8, 2008
• A student at the University of Alaksa Fairbanks has created a "massive Lego replica" of a new campus building. Here, he shows Alaska ...
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• Heads Up: 5.7.08
• May 7, 2008
• Maybe Rudy will have more luck with an election in Kiev? WSJ LA Mayor Villaraigosa to answer Rush Limbuagh's "shoeshine guy" comment. Mixed ...

• I Now Pronounce You Pot and Kettle
• May 7, 2008
• Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo has introduced a bill that would make divorce illegal in his state: "There's no greater threat to families and ...

• Heads Up: 5.6.08
• May 6, 2008
• Bill Richardson hits the Kentucky Derby but leaves his Lt. Gov. out of the loop. AP New St. Louis arena suffers different kind of "...

• NV Gov. Gibbons Files for Divorce
• May 5, 2008
• Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons and his wife have filed for divorce. I guess he'll be able to reclaim his status as a resident of the ...

• Jon Corzine is WAY Cooler Than You
• May 5, 2008
• From the Newark Star-Ledger : Just over a year after he was nearly killed in a car crash, Gov. Jon Corzine notched a personal milestone yesterday ...

• Honesty -- Now THERE'S an Idea!
• May 2, 2008
• Perhaps taking a page from the David Paterson playbook, Oregon House candidate Tony Marino has preemptively come clean on a host of topics. Marino has ...

• NV's Gibbons Decides Marital Separation Just Not Painful Enough
• May 1, 2008
• So Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons and his wife are having some marital difficulties.  Which is awful and sad and, frankly, kinda not any of ...
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