• Free and Easy
  • Yesterday at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting in Nashville, I set out on a search to find the weirdest booth in the ...
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  • Heads Up: 8.18.06
  • Chicago Mayor Daley slams visiting officials from Sante Fe and San Francisco: "You manage your city." Chicago Tribune Wyoming has a drinking problem. ...
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  • That's Govertainment!
  • The Hollywood Walk of Fame is going to have to start reserving stars for some state governors. (No, not that one.  Or that one.) ...
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  • Heads Up: 8.17.06
  • One urban planner's search for soundbites: "If it looks like the Louvre, you must approve." Planetizen Are state fairs in trouble? You bet ...
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  • More Bobbletower Fun
  • Thanks to one of our readers for pointing out that the famous Leaning Tower of Sioux Falls, SD, the undemolishable ZIP Feed mill, is now ...
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  • Plethora of Polk
  • The Nashville and Davidson County metro government has a lot going for it -- improving schools, affordable housing and an attractive business location -- but ...
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  • On Guard
  • The U.S. House has voted to allow the president to call up the National Guard in times of emergency without so much as a ...
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  • Ride, Sally, Ride
  • We bicyclists here on the 13th Floor are lucky because our building offers a shower. That allows the seven or so of us who commute ...
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