• Happy New Year
  • Wasn't it already 2008?  All this presidential election coverage is confusing us.
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  • When Losing Might Be Winning
  • On the morning of November 5, 2008, the day after Election Day, social conservatives may be celebrating Florida's vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
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  • Walking in a Winter No-one-derland
  • It's officially winter, and it's officially after Christmas. For many cities, that means entering into a period of slumber, when residents stay off the city ...
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  • Easy Street
  • Philadelphia Mayor John Street's Christmas present to himself is going to leave a bad taste in the mouths of his constituents. He has decided to ...
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  • Protho-Notorious
  • When I lived in Pittsburgh in the early '80s, I developed an appreciation for pierogies and became reasonably fluent in the charming local lingo ...
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  • Driving Motor City
  • Driving around a city can be a good way to get to know it. Detroit Free Press columnist Bill McGraw has taken that idea to ...
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  • Happy Holidays!
  • Happy Holidays from the 13th Floor!  If you need us, we'll be in an egg nog coma for the next several days. We're not ...
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  • Heads Up: 12.21.07
  • CA House Speaker's Xmas gifts to lawmakers? "Anti-coal." Sac Bee Jamie Lynn Spears is totes preggers! And states' statutory rape laws are totes ...
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  • Heads Up: 12.20.07
  • Score! IL Gov. Blago gets free Hannah Montana tix!!! Sun Times 2,500 OR residents: Stop giving our money to schoolkids! Oregonian Atlantic City to hire a &...
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