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• The Daily Report

  Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: environment, seattle, evan miller, homeless, the new argument, money, alley, taxpayers, paris, luxury, crack, toilet, restaurants, parks | 0

  A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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• Headlines

  Civil War Democracy, traffic, bikes, crack

  David Anderson | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hillary clinton, david anderson, los angeles, brooklyn, crack, bikes, super tuesday, selma, civil war, us marines, berkeley, usa today, common sense | 0

  Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War

  “The untold story in the run-up to Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s elaborate live prime-time special the night before the vote. Presiding from a studio in New York, the candidate took questions from audiences in 21 other cities. She had plugged the event four days earlier in the last gasp of her debate with Barack Obama and paid a small fortune for it: an hour of time on the Hallmark Channel plus satellite TV hookups for the assemblies of…

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• Headlines

  La Cosa Nostra, acts of god, perfectly fine transactions, tap that, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Feb 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hillary clinton, meredith aska mcbride, minneapolis, crack, texas, la cosa nostra, god, gambino family, border fence, tugboat, mafia, siciliani, antonio villaraigosa, transactions, tornados, macy's | 0

  Big Mob Sweep Nets Gambino Hierarchy

  “The charges, which are being brought in United States District Court in Brooklyn and state Supreme Court in Queens, also include seven murders — three dating back more than a quarter century — along with racketeering, extortion and state gambling charges, officials said.

  “The arrests by the F.B.I. and investigators from several other agencies were coordinated with a sweep that netted dozens of accused organized crime figures in Sicily. Those…

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