Zach Patton

Recent Articles

• Bum Bot: Future of Crime-Fighting?
• Apr 29, 2008
• Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill has come up with a new way to discourage people from loitering around his Irish pub -- the Bum Bot.&...
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• Heads Up: 4.28.08
• Apr 28, 2008
• KY Supreme Court chief's surprise decision to quit. Lex Herald Leader Drumbeat grows for impeachment of IL Gov. Blagojevich. Chicago Sun-Times MN's "Hannah Montana ...

• Let's All Move to Tulsa Metro!
• Apr 25, 2008
• Speaking of maps, here's a really interesting one I found on Paleo-Future.com, a cool blog about now-dated visions of the future. The map is ...
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• Strange Maps Maybe, But Cool Ones
• Apr 24, 2008
• If you're a regular reader of the 13th Floor, you probably have an affinity for states and localities. And there's probably a good chance you ...

• Transit Overcrowding Could Always Be Worse
• Apr 21, 2008
• I wrote a couple weeks ago about overcrowing on U.S. cities' transit systems. But let's all take a moment to give thanks that our ...
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• CaliforniaTube
• Apr 18, 2008
• The state of California this week launched its own YouTube channel. It brings together videos from several different state agencies -- including, as this San ...
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• RD RULZ
• Apr 17, 2008
• The Houston Chornicle has a nifty little profile on Darmeisha Bell, the Texas state employee in charge of making sure drivers' personalized license plates aren't ...
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• Heads Up: 4.15.08
• Apr 15, 2008
• Mike Huckabee's vision of Utopia: "Hucktown." Albany Times-Union NC Personnel Office accidentally tolerant of gays; fixes "mistake." Citizen Times Workers can't ...

• An Infrastructure Top 10
• Apr 15, 2008
• The May issue of Popular Mechanics includes a special report on "Rebuilding America," what it's going to take to get our country's infrastructure ...

• Takin' it Easy?
• Apr 14, 2008
• North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley looooves his three-day weekends: Easley's schedules for 2007 show only 10 Fridays over the course of the year with even a single ...

• Heads Up: 4.11.08
• Apr 11, 2008
• OR Gov. Ted Kulongoski might get the measles. Oregonian Chicago: "City of Children"? Sun-Times AZ gov's office not amused by April Fools prank. ...

• NYPD, Blue?
• Apr 11, 2008
• Judging by the success of the Seattle Police Department's unconventional campaign to recruit officers from New York City, the cops in New York are itchin' ...

• The Woonerf, The Swale and Urban Acupuncture
• Apr 10, 2008
• Think city streets are must be either driving lanes or pedestrian malls?  Think again, grandpa. The New York Times has this round-up of some ...

• The Mortgage Meltown -- So Pretty!!
• Apr 10, 2008
• I've been meaning to post about this all week, but I'm just now getting a chance. The New York Times on Sunday had the most ...
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• Heads Up: 4.10.08
• Apr 10, 2008
• ID's are totally required to board a plane. Except when they're not. Kansas City Star Wash, DC, metro pulls ads with Pope bobblehead doll. WaPo ...
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