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- omg u guyz: Illinois' Proposed Walking/Texting Ban Still Has Legs
- Texting-while-walking could become a crime in Illinois: Several officials, including the Illinois secretary of state, have voiced approval for a bill that would outlaw the ...
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- Mississippi's Still the Nation's Fattest State
- For the third year a row, Mississippi has been ranked the fattest state in the nation, with 32.6 % of that state's population coming in overweight or ...
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- My Problem With Batman
- The central question I tried to address in my recent feature in Governing ["The Corruption Puzzle," July 2008] is whether prosecutors step across a ...
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- Bloomberg's "Last Breakfast" Would Make Elvis Blush
- Not quite sure how the topic of "last meals" came up, but the NY Post recently asked NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg about what ...
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- So Goes Texas So Goes the World?
- Maybe I'm not reading these numbers right, but the YTD change in Texas' state revenues by major tax type (second table) shows Franchise Tax down 68.5% ...
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- How Not to Fire Someone
- Yesterday, the Alaska legislature approved a $100,000 investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's motivations in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Palin has drawn criticism due to ...
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- Prison construction as economic stimulus?
- Does a new prison boost the local economy? The Nacogdoches, TX, Daily Sentinel investigates... (Hat-tip to Crime and Justice News .)
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- Is States' Rights a Cover?
- The Tampa Tribune has an article looking at various issues on which presidential candidate John McCain has, in effect, punted, citing states' rights. These include ...
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- You Gotta Hope Tomorrow's Another Day...
- For unending local drama, it's hard to beat Clayton County, Georgia. It seems like half the headline-grabbing crimes in the region occur there. Its school ...
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- Good Health and a Good Education
- Go to a symposium where the speakers are health economists and you're going to get a lot of equations, bar charts and yield curves. And ...
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