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- Throwing Down the Paddle
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to a challenge from a potential campaign donor. The donor, an 80-year-old Sacramento man, said he would donate to ...
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- Livin' It Up In Lower Town
- I wrote a story for the current issue of Governing about Lower Town, a neighborhood in Paducah, Kentucky. City planners in Paducah are reviving the ...
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- Cliché Watch
- While reading The New York Times the other day, I was struck by the claim made in a piece on Guantanamo that, when it comes ...
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- Giving Lip Service to Judicial Independence
- When it comes to big spending in judicial elections, Alabama is pretty much the biggest. It's at or near the top of the list in ...
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- Reviving Dying Towns
- In recent months, I've been talking with a few academic types about how some of the older industrial towns in the Northeast are starting to ...
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- An Unexpected Question
- "Would you vote for a candidate who wrote a trashy, pornographic romance novel that glorifies premarital sex and seeks to arouse sexual interest as ...
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- Federally-Mandated Pay Decrease
- Minimum wage hikes remain a hot issue in states, but as you probably know, Congress looks likely to approve the first national increase in nine ...
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- A Material Girl
- posted by Ellen Perlman When I read that Washington, D.C. had put down some rubber sidewalks I decided I just had to go test ...
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- Public Sector Competence
- I've been talking to people up in Massachusetts about why the Big Dig has turned into such a black eye, while another project with a ...
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- The Liberian Dream
- The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Alderman Todd Stroger, the Democratic nominee to replace his father as Cook County Board president, has donated $8,000 to a Nation ...
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