Zach Patton

Recent Articles

• What Recession?? Alabama Wants You To Buy a $35 Movie Ticket
• Mar 27, 2008
• Do you enjoy going to the movies but think they're just too darn affordable?  The state of Alabama hopes so. The Retirement Systems of ...

• Heated Sidewalks! Just in Time For Spring!
• Mar 27, 2008
• Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation allowing heated sidewalks, stairs, entryways and pedestrian walkways. Wisconsin had the nation's only prohibition against such devices, passed ...

• Heads Up: 3.27.08
• Mar 27, 2008
• Silk-pajamas-wearing agency official cleared of harrassment charges. Chicago Sun-Times TX officials want state pension funds to invest in new toll roads. San Antonio Express News ...

• Seattle May Flush its Public Toilets
• Mar 26, 2008
• Seattle's $6.6 million experiment with automated, self-cleaning public toilets may be coming to an end: Citing drug use and prostitution in the silver pods, Seattle Public ...

• Heads Up: 3.25.08
• Mar 25, 2008
• Florida state employees rank last in pay. AP Fed court throws out NY's Airline Passenger Bill of Rights. NYT Got a Heads Up for us? ...

• Is It Food or Punishment?
• Mar 25, 2008
• If you're a prisoner in the Vermont corrections system and you  misbehave, you're likely to find something unappetizing at the next mealtime -- "...

• Should You Be Allowed to Sell Your Organs For Money?
• Mar 21, 2008
• There's a national shortage of kidneys, and thousands of people die each year waiting for donors. One possible (though, to some, unpalatable) option would be ...

• Heads Up: 3.20.08
• Mar 20, 2008
• The hotel that made "Kristin" famous. NYT Two state senators make the case for national prison reform. WaPo College gossip site targeted by ...

• Tent Cities in L.A.
• Mar 20, 2008
• The BBC has filed this grim report on the tent cities that have sprung up outside Los Angeles, as more and more people have lost ...
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• Good News! Your Office Pool Might Not Land You in Jail
• Mar 19, 2008
• In a lot of offices, betting on the March Madness brackets is an entrenched celebration of Spring. It's as much a part of office life ...
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• Heads Up: 3.18.08
• Mar 18, 2008
• "SUPERDELL" makes "totally awesome" bid for Utah gov. Deseret Morning News Sisters in VA selling Illinois-shaped cornflake online. Virginian-Pilot How mechanization ...

• Heads Up: 3.17.08
• Mar 17, 2008
• Dina Matos McGreevey denies sex claims from former driver. ABC News Spitzer's "Kristin" linked to Charlie Sheen. Daily Record No Big Dig copycats: ...

• Bloomberg to Rock '30 Rock'
• Mar 17, 2008
• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will appear in an upcoming episode of the NBC show "30 Rock" (which, if I may eschew journalistic objectivity ...

• McGreevey Aide Says He Had Threeway Trysts with First Couple
• Mar 17, 2008
• You would think there's nothing left to reveal in the long-running break-up of Jim "Gay American" McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey ...
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• Ravenstahl to Endorse Clinton
• Mar 14, 2008
• Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who still said he was undecided last week, is set to endorse Hillary Clinton for president today.