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- Heads Up: 4.9.08
- Louisiana senate nixes state cocktail. NYT Blind people, take heart! Congress takes up bill on silent hybrid cars. Examiner NV Gov. forced to surrender his ...
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- Capitol Improvements in Cheyenne
- The Wyoming state capitol has been through a lot since Casper Star-Tribune reporter Joan Barron first started covering the legislature 37 years ago, including an earthquake, ...
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- Wishful Thinking
- Here is a story that demonstrates the triumph of governmental hope over experience as well as anything I've come across in a long while.
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- Don't Mess With Texas...Strip Club Owners
- Last year Texas lawmakers implemented a $5 tax on admission into strip clubs, explaining the extra fee would raise more than $40 million for anti-sexual assult programs ...
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- Skybusted
- When Skybus Airlines, the nation's first ultra-low-cost carrier, announced this week that it was filing for bankruptcy and immediately terminating its service, some surprised passengers were left stranded without notice.
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- Heads Up: 4.8.07
- DC Mayor Fenty using city ads to hawk his family's business? DCist CA bill would tax iTunes to ease budget shortfall. San Jose Mercury News ...
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- Florida May Rein in Its Tax Breaks, Much To Ostrich Farmers' Chagrin
- Back in 1992, the state of Florida was looking to attract ostrich farmers. So the legislature passed a tax exemption on ostrich feed. Turns out, though, ...
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- Heads Up: 4.4.08
- Telemarketers lose access to TX crash victims' phone numbers. Dallas Morning News Cricket comes to NYC schools. NYT Fossilized poop shows evidence of earliest Americans. ...
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- A Murderer in the Manse
- A convicted killer serving time "for one of the most heinous murders in Nebraska history" is working in the state governor's mansion, "...
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- Jaytalking?
- Think you can avoid cellphone bans by walking instead of driving? Maybe not for long. Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit ...
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