• Sex Offender Switcheroo
  • Since when did sex offenders become so popular? Consider some developments over the past couple of weeks in state legislatures: * On a 32-8 vote, the ...
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  • A Dissatisfied Customer
  • I had a lengthy phone conversation the other day with a legislator full of complaints about press coverage of a bill he had sponsored. What ...
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  • Heads Up: 2.23.07
  • Arrows to spike strips: NM lawmakers tackle wrong-way drivers. ABQ Trib No more soda volcanos! Science fairs lose luster. Orlando Sentinel MA Guv's property tax ...
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  • Daisy, and More
  • Have you forgotten what Michael Dukakis looked like in a tank? Do you have a hankering to hear Richard Nixon talk about busing? Then look ...
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  • Heads Up: 2.22.07
  • Classroom candy: Undoing AR Gov. Huckabee's health reforms. AR News Hennepin Co. says acronyms will be DOA. Minneapolis Star-Tribune The gov't is DEFINITELY spying on ...
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  • Warming Up in the Bullpen
  • For all the innovations that are spinning out of NYC under Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the idea that almost no other mayors are stealing is the ...
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  • More Women in Government
  • I hesitate to post this on the 13th Floor because, honestly, I don't think it's really worth reporting.  I feel like this is akin ...
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  • The New Permanent Record
  • Henry Jenkins, who runs MIT's comparative media studies program, says that the Internet is "the new permanent record." Any jackass behavior you allow ...
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  • Heads Up: 2.21.07
  • MD Gov. O'Malley's anti-death penalty op-ed. WaPo Crime, violence and traffic: Worth $91 million for Vegas? Review-Journal Cost of a pack of cigarettes in a CA ...
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  • Pension Envy
  • For Governing's upcoming March issue, I wrote a little piece about how there could be some grumbling about the generosity of government employee pensions and ...
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