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Candidates add Internet to campaign arsenal
A City Council candidate can use the same technology as Barack Obama.

Taking their cues from national campaigns, candidates gearing up for 2008 and 2009 races in the neighborhood are learning the Web in what will be the most wired campaign to date.
Watch out, that shrub may be hiding a street
When is a street that's actually a forest still, in fact, a street?

Ask Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz when a street is not a street, and he’ll probably tell you: When it’s a forest.

But when is a street that’s actually a forest still, in fact, a street?

The NYPD says the answer lies on Forster Place ...
Velella's revenge left Republicans out in cold
An ambitious state senator upset a delicate balance in New York politics.

Like many tales of revenge, this one begins at a wedding.
Data.gov Proves Good Stats are Hard to Wrangle
The Dept. of the Interior says population counts of wild horses is "high-value."

Poring through the statistics and research made available on Data.gov that is relevant to their areas of interest, a small handful of researchers I spoke to say that much of it is stuff they've either seen before or don't find especially useful.

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Monorail!
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010
public projects | trains

Wired notes that the federal government seems poised to bankroll the creation of high-speed rail across the United States. President Obama alluded to this in his State of the Union address.

It might happen. Just don't expect it anytime soon. Here's why.
An adjective meaning 'askew, crooked, or out of place.'
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010
English | weird words

So a fairly recent paleological discovery and a word my countrified family sometimes uses are, in fact, connected.

Who knew?
Last night's Tech Meetup was great for journos
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010
Journalism | Technology

Two interesting demos and one important announcement that came last night during the monthly New York Tech Meetup stood out to me as things other NYC journos would like to know about.