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June 13, 2008, News

• OK, folks – Saturday, June 14, is decision day for the City Council Place 4 run-off between Laura Morrison and Cid Galindo. Get out and vote: This is the hands-on part of citizenship!

• Investigators are still sifting through the damage and trying to find the culprit who set fire to the Governor's Mansion Sunday night, as officials still plan to salvage and restore the national historic landmark.

City Council meets today (Thurs­day), with Green redevelopment, PUDs, "visitability," billboards, etc., etc., under discussion; the agenda's so long, Wells Dunbar left town. See "Beside the Point."

• Thousands of fired-up state Democrats gathered at the Convention Center over the weekend and began mending fences in the wake of Hillary Clinton's concession and endorsement of Barack Obama for the presidential nomination, as Chelsea Clinton herself arrived with unity greetings from her mother.

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