• Get-Off-The-Phone Laws
  • Here's the part I don't understand about Washington State's new law, or any other state's law, that prohibits driving while holding a cell phone to ...
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  • Heads Up: 4.13.07
  • China gets a town where the women make all the rules. Ananova Wireless sensors to watch pollution, traffic, weather. MIT Tech Review Boise's so clean, ...
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  • Sex and the City Government
  • Sometimes a statistic is worth a thousand words. Case in point: New York City gave away 5 million condoms in the first month after introducing the ...
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  • Heads Up: 4.12.07
  • The fast, high-rolling -- and illegal -- life of a state auditor. Times-Union Whoissick.org -- Google Maps for germaphobes. Gridskipper Vilsack joins Mondale's law ...
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  • So Much for That Boomlet
  • Fred Thompson, the actor and former U.S. senator, has announced he has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Although his prognosis is good -- he says the cancer ...
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  • Heads Up: 4.11.07
  • "Party fund" stripped from agency's budget. Bismarck Tribune Office rents up, occupancy down, in downtown NOLA. Times-Picayune Do bank robbers think twice if ...
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  • Another Bad Idea
  • I have an iPod. I use it every day. It offers me a much greater choice of music and downloaded radio shows (aka podcasts) to ...
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  • Clear Path to Corruption
  • Last fall, I appeared at a conference hosted by the American Enterprise Institute about financing higher education. I spoke about campus financial aid offices and ...
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  • Nice Guys Finish First?
  • In response to my post about Montana House Education Chairman Rick Jore, Kurtis writes in to comment that Jore has won praise for being upfront, ...
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