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OK, it’s possible to read too much into this news. Or, more properly, “news.”
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently welcomed the crew from Orange County Choppers – whose custom motorcycle business is featured on TLC’s American Chopper – to Anchorage where show star Paul Teutul Sr. researched building a bike to honor Alaska’s 50-year anniversary of [...]

It may not be big news compared to the stimulus and cabinet confirmations, but congressional Republicans just won their first battle of the Obama administration, defeating a bill that was backed by the president to delay the nationwide switch to digital television.
The vote, which stands to leave more than 6.5 million households without TV access [...]

Here’s something counterintuitive: the closer a person lives to Washington, D.C., the more likely it is that he or she watched the inauguration on television.
Nielsen released its numbers for the top 56 media markets in the country today. These metropolitan areas had the highest inauguration viewership yesterday:

Last week, the House Democrats unveiled their version of the $825 billion economic stimulus package.
The proposed bill provides billions of dollars for roads, schools, global warming research, information technology upgrades, food stamps, and unemployment insurance. However, it also allocates more than half a billion dollars for digital-to analog converter box coupons. From the report accompanying [...]