• ...and Tinkerbell Transit
  • Only once every three or four blue moons do we receive an interesting press release through our fax machine here on the 13th Floor, but ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.17.07 -- PART II
  • It's a newsy day! Here are a few more headlines, served up fresh. Nashville cops trade bikes for motorscooters. Tennessean No eating behind the wheel? ...
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  • Don't Mess With Nutmeggers
  • Last fall, my colleague Chris Swope reported on the Texas State Fair's bid to see how far culinary invention could stoop. You'd think the Lone ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.17.07
  • MD's O'Malley: From impatience to prudence. WaPo A history of smoking bans, from Pope Urban VIII to Adolf Hitler. The Atlantic Why does NV have ...
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  • Gaffe of the Day
  • Virginia House Del. Frank Hargrove is certainly efficient with his insults.  He was able to offend blacks and Jews in pretty much the same ...
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  • Googlicious
  • It wasn't so long ago -- what, 2005? -- when Google would blow my mind, week after week, with new web toys. Just when I'd get ...
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  • Downtown MBAs
  • Many cities are trying to attract college campuses -- or at least parts of them -- to their downtowns. I've written in Governing about how ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.16.07
  • The newest front in the War on Smoking? Apartment buildings. Seattle Times MD's new delegates get ettiquette lessons from House's Miss Manners. WaPo NM's Richardson ...
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  • MLK Day
  • The 13th Floor is taking off for the long weekend.  See you on Tuesday!
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