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Day 3 was over, not too many thoughts on the matter other than I thought Bill Clinton did a great job with his speech. Though people can whisper and wonder about whether or not Bill and Hillary are really going to pull the lever for Obama, the truth is, it doesn't matter (they live in New York), but what they say and do for him on the campaign trail does.

Michael Cass seems to do an effective job at grasping concerns that community leaders have expressed about Mayor Dean.

Nat Rau gives the controversial federal immigration proposal instituted by the Davidson County Sheriff the full treatment in this morning’s City Paper:

The Mayor of New York City has just “ordered the city’s more than 100 agencies to provide language assistance in six foreign languages.”

While there may be some logic to this for New York City, no one can deny that it will increase costs significantly at each of those 100 agencies. And who will pay those costs?

Jackie Dowd, over at the 13th Juror, is reporting some disturbing news on Sanford Florida's Project Homeless Connect.

The new school zoning lines were drawn to make the district run more economically by filling up schools that now have too few students and closing others. At least that's what the plan's advocates have been insisting.

It’s kind of sad when editorialists, lacking something meaningful to say about an actual issue, manufacture a controversy and then make [bleep] up to support an imaginary viewpoint.

Steve Gill goes on a straight rant against Tom Leatherwood’s role in the Great Income Tax Debate. Gill takes issue with John Rodgers’ article in the City Paper which portrays Marsha Blackburn and Leatherwood as equally against the income tax:

The curmudgeonly Tim Chavez is still underwhelmed by Barack Obama’s outreach to the Hispanic community: