• Heads Up: 2.28.07
  • Oakland mayor wants to give convicts jobs. Oakland Tribune Mall of America wants $234 million subsidy package. Star-Tribune Arkansas' or Arkansas's? There oughta be a law! ...
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  • Pre-Op City Manager Ousted
  • Turns out that Steve Stanton, the city manager for Largo, FL, will NOT be one of the first public officials anywhere to undergo gender-reassignment surgery ...
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  • REAL Opposition?
  • As the U.S. Senate begins debate today on measures to modify the REAL ID Act, which mandates standardized identification nationwide, what action Congress' upper ...
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  • Stick a Fork Time?
  • If you're following gubernatorial politics at all this year, you know that Ernie Fletcher is in trouble. We'll have an item about this in the ...
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  • Heads Up: 2.27.07
  • Govs press Bush on Iraq, get not much in return. Billings Gazette NY state employee fired over a tip to the local news? News10 Albany ...
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  • Medical Cost Confusion
  • posted by Ellen Perlman All politics may be local, but often it's personal too. If someday West Virginians can understand their medical bills, it could ...
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  • Heads Up: 2.26.07
  • Chicago aldermen want to avoid a JetBlue fiaso at O'Hare. Sun-Times Holy #$*%! Anti-porn czar tackles obscenity. SL Tribune Estonia to vote for president on the ...
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  • A Tale of Two Governors
  • Which is the Democrat and which is the Republican? Governor #1 says: "It's the first budget in six years with no new taxes or tax ...
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  • So Long, Vilsack
  • For a while, it looked like Tom Vilsack was going to be the only governor or ex-governor in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes, so those of ...
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