• Heads Up: 7.12.07
  • States find no easy fix for aggressive driving. Stateline Out with the old: Seattle's selling its old street signs. Seattle Times PA's Rendell likens political ...
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  • Ballpark Gestation
  • Yesterday, Josh offered an intriguing comparison of pandas and baseball stadiums as economic development strategies. If you're wondering just how that stadium is coming along, ...
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  • Public Shame
  • I went to public schools from kindergarten all the way through college. I actually take a lot of pride in that. But Pittsburgh thinks there's ...
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  • 'Badonkadonk' Must Be Devastated
  • The Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have come out with their list of new additions for the year. Topping the list? "Ginormous" and "crunk.&...
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  • Heads Up: 7.11.07
  • Lean Star State? TX will be first to test its kids' fitness. Morning News OR town's residents upset that the traffic posts look like...you ...
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  • The Bear Facts
  • Here's something that perhaps no municipal official has ever asked: Which is a better bargain, a baseball team or a giant panda cub?
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  • Heads Up: 7.10.07
  • Governors are fair-weather Facebook friends. Stateline Shaq for sheriff, and Charles Barkley for AL gov? Birmingham News No more roadside parking in Arkansas. Today's THV ...
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  • Love In an Elevator
  • Okay, this is easily the single greatest song ever written about a state commissioner of labor. Yep, the smiling face of North Carolina Labor Commissioner ...
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