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THE CHOICES AREN'T GREAT. A Washington writer Post speculates on where Gaddafi might find exile. Via The Sydney Morning Herald
Could be worse. He could go to Detroit.

HOME PRICES are plummeting. They are down to 2000 levels in Las Vegas. So are home prices in Atlanta, Detroit and Cleveland. But compared to Detroit, the other cities are doing great. In the recently released S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, Detroit ranked last with an index of 66.02. Compare to Atlanta, Las Vegas and Cleveland, all between 99.23 and 99.59.

FACULTY UNIONS IN FLORIDA could be decertified if a new bill passes if fewer than half of eligible employees are members. Unions are scrambling to intimidate members into signing up.

GOING, GOING, GOING... At least they hope so. Baltimore has 30,000 vacant properties. The city owns 4,000 of them. Can't afford to rehab them. Can't afford to tear them down. Can't sell em. Wait. Isn't that the story of Detroit?

OHIO EDUCATION REFORM BILL GOES TO GOVERNOR FOR SIGNATURE
Ohio Senate Bill 5 passed both the Assembly and Senate. The vote was House 53-44 and Senate 17-16.
The bill which would permit public employees to collectively bargain only on wages, hours, terms and conditions of their employment.

Senate Bill 5 would ban strikes by public employees, provide that city councils rather than third-party arbitrators decide contracts for emergency workers in an impasse, eliminate seniority as a sole consideration for raises or layoffs, cut sick time and vacation benefits, prohibit public employers from paying part of the employees’ contribution to their pensions and make staffing levels non-negotiable.

OH YEAH. NO LAUGH TRACK NEEDED. Headline: (Mar. 30) Feds probe Cook County’s troubled job training program. Even less likely to result in any indictment: (Mar 30) City inspector general looking at homicide involving Daley nephew.