Hometown news for the on-the-fly executive.
3/15/2004
For the traveling executive, it never hurts to get a little local news from the next town on your agenda. Maybe that supplier you're courting was just indicted, or there is a tornado watch on tap. Topix.net, a news aggregation site, does a particularly nice job of collecting local news. Just put in the zip code or name of the town you're interested in, and up pops news from newspapers in that area (not just the big metro dailies), along with news from that state and the local weather.