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  • Heads Up: 3.26.07
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   March 26, 2007
  • MD school backs peppermint for students' alertness. NPR DE fights to save its only regular airline service. Wilmington News Journal At the Big Dig, what's ...
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  • Pick a Reason, Any Reason
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   March 26, 2007
  • When it comes to the federal Real ID Act -- which calls for national standards for identification cards such as drivers licenses -- there are ...
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  • Heads Up: 3.23.07
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   March 23, 2007
  • Retirees are lovin' the Wii. Reuters A lobbyist, at age 8. Boston Globe Ethanol backlash brewing in Midwest. WSJ (subs req'd) Tinseltown backlash: Idaho dumps new ...
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  • Votes That Don't Count
  • Posted By: Josh Goodman |   March 23, 2007
  • The state of Alaska is going to waste $1.2 million on April 3 to hold a referendum asking voters their opinion on domestic partner benefits for public ...
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  • Heads Up: 3.22.07
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   March 22, 2007
  • KC mayor jumps into tax-breaks fray. KC Star Buying spray paint in Minneapolis? Let's see your ID. Star-Tribune CA Transportation Dept. hid $13 mil of contracts ...
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  • Extreme Propaganda
  • Posted By: Alan Greenblatt |   March 22, 2007
  • Here's a legislative example of the phenomenon I described the other day with the anti-Hillary YouTube video. Two videos have been posted on YouTube deriding ...
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  • Curses, FOIAed Again!
  • Posted By: Josh Goodman |   March 22, 2007
  • I recently received a publication from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas that raises an interesting question: At what volume (if any) do requests ...
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  • Super Drunk and Drive
  • Posted By: Will Wilson |   March 21, 2007
  • Michigan could soon become the 36th state to enact "super drunk and drive" legislation.  Gov. Jennifer Granholm is working with the legislature ...
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  • Information Devolution
  • Posted By: Alan Greenblatt |   March 21, 2007
  • By now it's become a tired cliche that independent voices, granted new power and tools by technology, have up-ended traditional public discourse, challenging both media ...
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  • Heads Up: 3.21.07
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   March 21, 2007
  • Chicago hosts an egg hunt -- designed to kill!!! Tribune Hickenlooper meets opponent, gets a lapful of beer. Rocky Mountain News Missing word sends a ...
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