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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

  What Elections have become, Outsourcing to America, the $1 Bus, Cheap Housing, Safety, and more

  David Anderson | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: obama, david anderson, clinton, seattle, homeless, construction, bus, alphonso jackson, toilet, dollar, canada, dallas, missouri, new york, whopper, vancouver, crane, airline, tent city | 0

  A “Whopper”, the infamous Alphonso Jackson, Canadians outsourcing to Kansas City?, $1 fares from Toronto to New York, demolition in the Tent City, the burden of housing illegal immigrants, increased safety regulations for city construction, and proper disposal of “public waste.”

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