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Does Posting Calories Make a Difference?
Posted By: Zach Patton | October 28, 2009
You may recall that New York City began requiring fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts alongside all of their menu items. The city's thinking, ...
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Accessing Kansas' Big Well with Greensburg's City Administrator
Posted By: Elizabeth Daigneau | October 28, 2009
This stairway leads down tow the largest hand-dug well in the world. Photo by David Kidd I recently flew into Wichita on my way to ...
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The United Not-States
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | October 26, 2009
There's been a debate of sorts in recent days in the liberal blogosphere on the question of whether states should be eliminated. Matthew Yglesias, ...
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Rebuilding Miami?
Posted By: Elizabeth Daigneau | October 20, 2009
Photo courtesy of Jorge R. Perez/City of Miami Updated November 3, 2009: This post has been corrected to show that the above image is an actual ...
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Dayton Foreclosure Update
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | October 20, 2009
I wrote a cover story early last year on foreclosures, looking at Dayton, Ohio, to give a sense of what the effects were like in ...
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Suburban Diversity
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | October 19, 2009
The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University on Long Island will be hosting a big academic conference later this week on the increasing ...
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Hyperlocal New Jersey
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | October 14, 2009
If you're following the news about the news, you've probably heard that many media companies are hoping to find successful niches in so-called ...
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Postcard From New Mexico
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | October 14, 2009
I spent several days in New Mexico last week, speaking at the Council of State Governments' western regional meeting and enjoying much of the stunning ...
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Making it More Fun to Take the Stairs
Posted By: Zach Patton | October 13, 2009
Cities from New York to Missoula, Montana, are urging residents to "take the stairs" instead of an escalator or elevator. It's a ...
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Conan to Newark Mayor: I Will 'Crush You'
Posted By: Zach Patton | October 7, 2009
It's really a shame that David Letterman and his sex-extortion scandal are all anybody can talk about in late-night TV right now, because there'...
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