• It's No Holiday for Sex Offenders
  • It's Halloween, and that means it's time for another round-up of "cracking-down-on-sex-offenders" stories: Washington Post: Md. Pays a Holiday Checkup on Child Sex ...
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  • Tax-o-Lanterns
  • Halloween in Iowa might be a little scarier than other places this year. Why? Because there's a new pumpkin tax (oooooo! scary!) in the state. ...
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  • Heads Up: 10.31.07
  • NV DEM party launches program to teach rural kids how to caucus. CNN Zipcar and Flexcar agree to merge. WaPo Those new gunshot sensors actually ...
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  • Now That's Scary
  • If the state of Kentucky gets its way, the joke tonight will be on Snickers, Good & Plenty won't be plentiful and Almond Joy will ...
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  • Heads Up: 10.30.07
  • State report: Texas has too many reports. Dallas Morning News Are cities' gay neighborhoods becoming passé? NYT Gridlock over how to end airlines' gridlock. CS ...
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  • Recall Blago? Reader Responses
  • Today's Chicago Tribune has posted several readers' reponses to yesterday's opinion piece calling for a recall of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The comments are really thoughtful ...
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  • Map Time
  • posted by Josh Goodman The Wichita Eagle has a neat feature on its Web site: A map, which is updated every weekday, of all the ...
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  • Blago a Go Go?
  • Today's Chicago Tribune has a startlingly strong op-ed, in which the paper advocates a recall vote to take Gov. Rod Blagojevich out of office. Given ...
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