• Hope for the Ninth Ward?
  • New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is ready for recovery, according to a new report released this weekend. The structures in the flood-damaged neighborhood are structurally ...
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  • New Day for Daley
  • It's looking increasingly likely that Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is set to win a sixth term this year. The Chicago Sun-Times has this story ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.5.07
  • SF's urban success story. SF Chronicle At the Sundance Film Fest, without a hired escort. Salt Lake Trib FL prisons chief's new fitness goals have ...
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  • For Sale: Jonathan Walters' Driveway
  • After reading my article on how state and local governments are selling off their toll roads, parking garages and other assets, Governing Correspondent Jonathan Walters ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.4.07
  • Romney's housewarming gift to Patrick: A slew of GOP appointees. Globe Non-Hispanic governor is named to top Latino list. Texas Politics blog New FL Gov. ...
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  • Give Us Back Our Po Biddy Crossroads!
  • Last year, the Georgia DOT cleaned up its map of the state by deleting nearly 500 tiny communities from the map. The cities, predictably, were up ...
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  • Fenty and schools
  •         I guess I shouldn't be surprised when Adrian Fenty says his first priority as mayor of DC will be fixing ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.3.07
  • Flu Crisis 2007: Too much vaccine. Austin American-Statesman Why transportation planners need Uncle Ben's. Seattle Times Texans: Pay up for tolls, even if they're just pennies. ...
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  • McGreevey Gets Painted, Too
  • Speaking of gubernatorial portraits, New Jersey finally got around to hanging a portrait of former Gov. James McGreevey, who in 2004 resigned in disgrace after admitting ...
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