• Heads Up: 1.31.08
  • Marijuana vending machines introduced in LA. ABC News Duke Energy to build its (last?) coal plant in NC. Charlotte Observer Is global warming an infrastructure ...
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  • Competition Out West
  • One of the major ongoing political stories over the past couple of years, and certainly this year, is renewed two-party competition in the Mountain West. ...
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  • Full-Time Headaches
  • Not surprisingly in tough budget times, the Michigan legislature is highly unpopular with the public. Voters there will decide on a ballot initiative this year ...
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  • Embrace of the Governator
  • Governor Arnold will endorse McCain shortly, which seems about right. Both are pro-business Republicans who have been able to find common cause with Democrats from ...
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  • McCain's Florida Win
  • I covered the big tobacco bill that John McCain carried in the U.S. Senate back in 1998. Does anyone even remember that one? At any ...
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  • The Battle for the 26th
  • Illinois is the rare state that is holding legislative voting at the same time as its presidential primary. (It was always an early-primary state). On ...
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  • Heads Up: 1.29.08
  • Who knew? Bail bondsmen are illegal almost everywhere except U.S. NYT Ohio judge sentences man to spend a night homeless. AP At airport, West ...
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  • Are You Ready for Your Close Up?
  • Who doesn't like to watch a guy skiing down a subway escalator or a reporter getting an on-air taser demonstration? But streaming video is not just the domain of amateurs posting homemade masterpieces and snippets of TV programs.
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