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Windows 7 Public Beta To Be Available Friday

PROneTworks (Free subscription) | yesterday

Public transportation ridership increases in Woodlands

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Despite a significant drop in gas prices, public transit riders in The Woodlands continue to climb.

Your Taxes at Work in the Public School System

Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | yesterday

Just another day in the woefully under-funded and top-notch U.S. public school system . . . the headline and subtitle are all you need: Chicago Public Schools’ cappuccino bill: $67,000 ‘A WASTE OF MONEY’ | Report says staffers skirted rules to buy 30 coffeemakers, changed athletes’ grades, falsified addresses

Angola: Public Television Screens New Soap

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The channel 1 of the Angolan Public Television (TPA) will screen on January 12, at 8pm, a youth soap of the national production called "Doce Pitanga".

Top 10 best value public colleges, universities

The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The top 10 public "Best Values" public colleges/ universities in the U.S. are ranked by the Princeton Review, a test-prep company known for its annual college listings. The Princeton Review selected the schools based on surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 public and private college and university campuses. Overall selection criteria included more than 30 factors...

Public Safety Appreciation BBQ in Sylmar

LAFD News & Information (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

From our friends at the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation ... The community is invited to join with us at El Cariso Park in Sylmar this Friday for a free Public Safety Appreciation Barbecue to recognize and honor those who battled the recent Sayre & Marek wildfires. Friday, January 9, 2009 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM El Cariso Park 13100 Hubbard Street Sylmar, CA 91342 This is a...

The Public Eye: Beware of Publishers Clearing House look-alike

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Trendfo.com Hottest Trends (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009

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Public School House Rock: School Lunch

MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A satire of School House Rock from MadTV.

The Public Square

The Corner (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

I would like to second Ramesh's praise: "The Public Square" in First Things was, indeed, "an extraordinary journalistic achievement". Every issue, Father Neuhaus pulled an array of surprising and often apparently trivial items from the world's media and addressed the deeper currents running underneath. A few years ago in that space he noted with regret an emerging post-Zionist fatalism regarding...

Say Hello to DC's Fourth Public Bicycle System!

TheWashCycle (Free subscription) | yesterday

This one at American University. Via Ian.

Poland's public television: Tragedy or farce?

The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday

A putsch at Poland’s public-television enterprise reflects murky politics PUBLIC broadcasting in Poland is a fractious business. Ruling parties habitually try to unseat their predecessors’ placemen amid howls of protest from opposition parties who did much the same when they were in power. Now the main ruling party, Civic Platform, is enjoying the sight of television bosses installed...

Essential Estrogen: RPI Bans Press but not Public?

BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Will wonders never cease? David Chung is reporting on Hawkeye GOP that Saturday's meeting will be open to the public but closed to the press. Huh? What if a member of the press wants to just come in as a member of the public are they going to kick [...]

CES 2009: Public Beta of Windows 7 available Fri

:: Articles :: Gizmos for Geeks (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced yesterday at the keynote at CES that a public beta of Windows 7 will be available tomorrow. Limited betas have been available to the MSDN and some Technet subscribers. Microsoft expects to ship Windows 7 within the year. Bookmark/e-Mail

2009 NIO Public Policy Tour in DC

Brain Waves (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009

NIO's third annual Public Policy Tour of Washington, DC will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 10-11, 2009. The two-day event will include high-level meetings on Capitol Hill and with the Department of Veterans Affairs and National Institutes of Health . The NIO Public Policy Tour of Washington, DC commences Tuesday, February 10 on Capitol Hill. Meetings are scheduled with...