News You Can Use

• ABC has shut down a blogger's website after he began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco. Contact both KSFO and ABC Radio to complain.

• Given the inaction by the Republican-led Congress since 1994, states are planning large expansions in their own health care coverage attempt to reduce the ranks of the 42.4 million Americans who are uninsured.

• Despite attempts to gentrify on of New Orleans's most distinctive neighborhoods, urban planners at three universities are challenging the notion that the city's Ninth Ward must be rebuilt from scratch.