• Heads Up: 6.25.07
  • Woo-hoo! "Michigan not worst in taxes or spending." Detroit Free Press Will Wal-Mart ruin this Hasidic Jewish town? NYT Lost your monkey? Here's ...
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  • Got baum?
  • As the Bloomberg for President speculation reached Fred Thompson levels of hysteria over the past few days, it dawned on me that I had no ...
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  • Heads Up: 6.22.07
  • Where's your best bet for retaining the value of your home? Biz Times SF might get a tourist zeppelin in 2008. CNET Paris Hilton case sheds ...
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  • Newsom's Problems
  • When I wrote a piece (5th item) about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's potential electoral problems, I erred on the side of good taste and ...
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  • Heads Up: 6.21.07
  • Bad math forces Schwarzenegger to redo schools plan. Union-Tribune NYC poor to get cash for good behavior. ABC News NV House: No more "Yucca ...
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  • Reeeeally Deferred Maintenance
  • Sure, sewers and street-cleaning and road maintenance are all really important.  But have you ever really stopped to think about how important those sorts ...
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  • Heads Up: 6.20.07
  • KC's Funkhouser changes his mind about that free car. KC Star Balto's new(ish) mayor wants to change the city charter. Sun How the passport ...
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  • Suburban Supervisor
  • Don't know whether you've been following the saga of Ed Jew, a San Francisco supervisor accused of having shaken down constituent business owners for $40,000 to ...
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