• Heads Up: 9.17.07
  • Bill Richardson: "Arrest me" for medical marijuana support. MPP Tax protesters pay Indy's Bart Peterson a house call. Indy Star Wichita considers a ...
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  • Only in Louisiana
  • Louisiana has a unique way of making government more bipartisan. Consider the major candidates for governor this fall: -Foster Campbell, a Democrat -Walter Boasso, who ...
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  • Heads Up: 9.14.07
  • Fashion police: FBI says that hat you're wearing is CRIMINAL. Seattle Times Iowa schools denied grants because req's weren't double-spaced. Sioux City Journal via Stateline ...
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  • I Am In the WRONG Business.
  • I know I praised the a city-branding effort last week. But seriously, sometimes the whole hiring-a-consultant-to-come-up-with-a-new-slogan thing seems kiiiiinda pointless. Like in Burlington, Vermont. That ...
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  • Slowing Arizona
  • Arizona is doing something that, so far as I know, nowhere else has tried: A statewide effort to automate speeding enforcement on state highways.
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  • Releasing Sex Offenders
  • If you've been following the flurry of state legislation in recent years to punish sex offenders and prevent their future crimes, you'll want to know ...
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  • Klein on Colbert
  • This is why I love late night on Comedy Central. What other late shows would have New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on as ...
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  • Heads Up: 9.13.07
  • Married couples are the new minority in California. Mercury News Impeachment for Iowa judge who blocked gay-marriage ban? DM Register NC legislature tries to use ...
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  • Heads Up: 9.11.07
  • Homeland Insecurity: Ports in a Storm. Mother Jones For a day, the A train is the most historic way to get to Harlem. NYT The ...
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  • A Pointless Exercise?
  • Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee has a characteristically smart column today about the end of California's legislative session, which looks like the usual mad ...
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