Hot off the Press: A few stories from the past weeks edition

Down at the Pizza Ranch...is where many Republican presidential candidates have gone to gladhand with voters: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pizza-ranch-20111227,0,4931403.story. Pizza Ranch: Iowa's Bürgerbräukeller?

Residents in New London are calling for their new major to step down after he used a racial slur while talking with friends at a convenience store klatch: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120109/NEWS/301090016/Residents-blast-racial-reference-by-Iowa-town-s-new-mayor.

There is a newly renewed (again) push to make Washington, DC the 51st state, called New Columbia: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2012/01/washington-dc-push-bid-to-become-51st-state.html.