• Heads Up: 12.14.06
  • U.S. urban dwellers are getting richer, but the racial gap's growing too. Baltimore Sun 1,000 dead ducks in Idaho. (Could it be bird flu??) Chicago ...
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  • Love Your Enemies
  • We've written a lot about Arnold Schwarzenegger's tendency to veer in policy approach -- conciliatory in even-numbered years, confrontational in the odd ones. Now that's ...
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  • Heads Up: 12.13.06
  • Is Palm Springs a "hate-free city"? Desert Sun Does wi-fi cause health problems? Wired AK gov's jet to be sold on eBay. Anchorage ...
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  • Capital Offense
  • I received this familiar-sounding message from Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff the other day: "Our agenda is ambitious: to build the best ...
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  • Park Place
  • Here's a neat Web site: Santa Monica, California has a real-time map of where parking spaces are available in its downtown and at the beach. ...
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  • The French Will Never Change
  • This is outside our normal scope, but fans of French-style protectionism will enjoy this passage from 1491 , Charles Mann's fascinating and unusually well-written book about North ...
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  • Latino or Hispanic?
  • There's often newsroom debate about how to refer to members of various subgroups of Americans. Some editors think that "Native Americans" is still ...
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  • Heads Up: 12.12.06
  • Whatever a "rolling mortuary" is, AL's the only state that's got one. Birmingham News Will Bill Frist run for TN gov??? Tennessean TX ...
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  • Blue Suburbia
  • Following an election, it's always good to check in with Rhodes Cook, my old coworker at CQ and author of an important political newsletter. We ...
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