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Patrol Less, Ticket More
Posted By: Melissa Maynard | March 13, 2007
The relationship between budget shortfalls and speeding tickets is becoming infinitely more complex in Michigan. More state troopers will soon likely be parked on the ...
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Hometown INS
Posted By: Will Wilson | March 13, 2007
The ACLU won't often get caught up defending the Bush administration's right to regulate, but that is the situation developing in the federal case regarding ...
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Freedom vs. Keeping All Your Body Parts
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | March 12, 2007
Just for the record, if anyone hears me say, "I'd give my right arm" for something, I'm speaking figuratively. But prison inmates in ...
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Heads Up: 3.12.07
Posted By: Zach Patton | March 12, 2007
How much for a brain? SC weighs early release for organ-donor felons. LA Times Suit urges MA to overhaul prisons. Boston Globe Thanks for that ...
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Strong County Leader?
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | March 12, 2007
We've seen the trend toward strong mayoral control in many large cities in recent years, with Richmond, San Diego, Oakland and many others taking big ...
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What's Good for the Michigoose...
Posted By: Josh Goodman | March 12, 2007
The other day, I was faced with a perplexing question: What do you call someone from New Jersey? "A genius," my colleague Chris, ...
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Heads Up: 3.09.07
Posted By: Zach Patton | March 9, 2007
Springfields vie for "Simpsons" movie premiere. WaPo More states dropping motorcycle helmet laws. NPR CDC report: AIDS hits black men the hardest. Reuters ...
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Direct Democracy Delayed
Posted By: Josh Goodman | March 9, 2007
Earlier this week, I mentioned California's high-speed rail project, which would connect the Northern and Southern parts of the state with a 220-MPH bullet train. ...
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Government Keeping Us Safe
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | March 8, 2007
Lately, I've been thinking about "nanny state" issues. Sometimes governments require citizens to do common-sense things, but at what point do such laws ...
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Heads Up: 3.08.07
Posted By: Zach Patton | March 8, 2007
Ritter vs. Ritter: The contradictions of CO's governor. Denver Post Special green license plates for OH sex offenders? NYT "Super Mario vs. the Pieman.&...
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