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It’s 7 a.m., already 58° and going to 74°. Which means another day of a city filled with shorts and sundresses and people still stunned that it’s not raining. Details are here.

Today is, of course, the St. Stupid’s Day Parade. If you haven’t left for work yet, you might want to take an extra pair of socks to trade in the sock exchange. Argyle always goes over well. 

In other news: 

Still no police chief. But soon.

One hundred days after “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, soldiers are still standing trial. 

Tickets to the Apple conference are being scalped for $3,000. And up.

The question of the age: “Will Facebook one day be Tribe?.”

And finally, TechCrunch is keeping an excellent list of April Fool’s Day stories.

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As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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