Future still bright for track teams  After not winning any events at last weekend's state track and field meet, area teams and athletes could be discouraged - but they shouldn't be.read more...


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School of the Osage Will Eliminate Out-of-School Suspension  Submitted by Michael McSorley on May 22, 2007 - 12:17pm. Next school year, students who get in trouble at the School of the Osage High School may not see out-of-school


From smudge to Pudge  ... during his Monday news conference. "I think he's put himself in a trap where he's trying to do too much. He wants it so bad and it's hard


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Grounded by their debt  Thousands of U.S. troops are being barred from overseas duty because they are so deep in debt they are considered security risks, according to an Associated Press review of military

May 31st, 2008

The Economics of America’s Climate Security Act of 2007

The issue of climate change is now at the forefront of American environmental policy.

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May 31st, 2008

Banks’ ties to legislators run deep in foreclosure crisis

A crisis awaited Georgia legislators last January. Mortgage foreclosure notices in metro Atlanta had increased by nearly a third in a year, and the state ranked third nationally in seriously delinquent home …

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May 31st, 2008

Read the Sun’s story.

A Henderson teenager who last month pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of his best friend in April was sentenced in Juvenile Court Tuesday.

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May 31st, 2008

Section 1AAA Baseball | Owatonna 7, Mayo 3

Nothing seemed to go right Friday night for the Rochester Mayo baseball team. When the Spartans showed up at the Red Wing Athletic Field, they found the night’s first game still in progress.

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May 31st, 2008

Phillies search for staying power in East

In Charlie Manuel’s perfect world, the Phillies would move into first place in the National League East and stay there throughout the summer.

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May 31st, 2008

Defaulted debt left by Premier goes on and on

It looks like Premier Properties USA quit paying nearly all of its bills a year or so ago.

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May 31st, 2008

Weekly Real Estate News Roundup

First Housing Now Oil In Charlotte, N.C., gasoline at nearly $4 a gallon is cracking “the survivors,” as credit counselor Bruce G. Hamlett calls them.

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May 31st, 2008

Search the City

Sounds like … the melodic emo-rock of Jimmy Eat World, Anberlin, Mae, and Fugazi.

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May 31st, 2008

My wife is cheap which is great except when …

So I’m driving back home with my wife from the Old 97s concert last night and boy was she in a bad mood.

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May 31st, 2008

The quest for homeownership

As we enter June, National Homeownership Month, there is no doubt that homeownership is a key to families building generational wealth.

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May 31st, 2008

The Flip Side

Auctioneers, bankruptcy attorneys, credit counselors, debt collectors, and so-called “repo men” or reposession agents are among the workers now seeing a boom in business.

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May 31st, 2008

Pass N.Y. housing bill that protects lenders, borrowers

Both Congress and the state Legislature thus far have failed to enact credit reform that protects borrowers and lenders while ending the abuses that have marked the foreclosure crisis.

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May 31st, 2008

Dead-End Car Wash Job To Governor’s Mansion?

James A. Amann has been juggling politics and private life since the fifth grade, when he balanced his duties as fifth grade class president with his paper route for the New Haven Register.

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May 31st, 2008

Working Out Property Tax Problems

I know from experience that if one person has a question or problem, there are thousands more behind the scenes who are struggling with a similar situation.

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May 31st, 2008

TJX Dinged Over Security-Related Firing

David Utter Staff Writer 2008-05-29 A former employee of TJX, which suffered one of the hugest security breaches and exposures of consumer information in recorded history, claimed he had been fired for …

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May 31st, 2008

Salmond must avoid the dangers of complacency

Iain Macwhirter on SNP boredom ALEX SALMOND is bored. Last week he appeared tobegoingthrough themotionsatfirst minister’squestion time, hardly bothering to bat away questions on the Scottish Futures Trust; ...

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May 31st, 2008

“When the Customer Won’t Pay”

SmallBizResource Blog—Business Know-How Posted by Gayle Kesten Friday, May 30, 2008, 10:19 AM ET Chances are most of your customers pay you within a reasonable amount of time.

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May 31st, 2008

Sofa chain Land of Leather seeks funds

FURNITURE retailer Land of Leather has called in KPMG, the accountant, to advise on the renegotiation of bank facilities before its year-end in July.

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May 31st, 2008

BMW’s Electrified Future: Munich poised to join zero emissions minicar conga line

Despite no official word yet out of Munich, rumors persist that BMW is developing an electric-powered minicar that should be ready by 2012, just in time to meet a California mandate for the production of zero …

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May 31st, 2008

Dems criticize Steelman for MOHELA comments

Missouri Democrats are criticizing state Treasurer Sarah Steelman for these comments the first-term statewide official made about the plan to use sold loans from MOHELA for capital improvement projects.

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May 31st, 2008

Todd Ossenfort: Student can learn to use first credit card wisely

Q My daughter is trying to get a credit card while she is in college. She is not sure how she can be sure some card companies are legitimate online.

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May 31st, 2008

Hold tight for a scary ride

A week of dismal economic news has left British families feeling under greater pressure than ever Filling up her Ford Focus at a Southampton petrol station on Friday afternoon, Deborah James became the victim …

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May 31st, 2008

Political Science Vs. Government - ” Did They Make Us Lose The Way?

Political Science Vs. Government – ” Did They Make Us Lose The Way? by Thomas D. Segel Back in those long ago days when I was a college undergraduate, I selected a major.

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May 31st, 2008

Former Wall street trader and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When this man said the world’s economy was heading for disaster, he was scorned.

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May 31st, 2008

Sex and the City: bad frock tactics

The film version of Sex and the City is a trite imitation of the original and too safe by half Cosmo Landesman Watch the trailer At its best, the television series Sex and the City was funny and outrageous.

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May 31st, 2008

Dell Slapped In NY Fraud Case

David Utter Staff Writer 2008-05-28 New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo won big against the computer maker, with Dell accused of numerous unsavory business practices regarding its financial and tech …

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May 31st, 2008

Mexico-based Famsa brings 38 years of experience to Stockton

A slowdown in retail – especially furniture – isn’t keeping a Mexico-based furniture retail giant from expanding into Stockton.

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May 31st, 2008

Housing market bad on both sides of coin

IT’S been a bad week for house sellers and buyers as the credit crunch sinks its teeth into homeowners and potential house purchasers.

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May 31st, 2008

10 Plus: Jermaine Exum

Acme Comics on Lawndale Drive is celebrating 25 years in business this year, and manager Jermaine Exum has been a key part of the business’s success for the past 14 years.

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May 31st, 2008

City to halt repaving for year

Consider yourself lucky this summer if you live on a Greensboro street that’s in bad shape and see a resurfacing crew hard at work.

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May 31st, 2008

Giants sick on home cooking Seventh straight loss at AT&T is dismal

They win a few in a row and one wonders if maybe they are better than advertised.

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May 31st, 2008

Will the Dollar Slump or Soar?

Jack Crooks discusses reasons why the dollar could be getting ready to slump lower and reasons why the dollar could be in store for an upward turnaround.

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May 31st, 2008

Bad Weather Strikes Midwest (Fox 12 Oregon)

UNDATED —Parts of the Midwest have been hammered by another round of bad weather. High winds have heavily damaged an apartment complex in Indianapolis. Television reports showed several injured residents being helped onto stretchers.

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May 31st, 2008

Think the Economy Is Bad? Wait Till the States Cut Back (New York Times)

When the current fiscal year ends on July 1, state and city spending will fall, along with employment.

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May 31st, 2008

Should gas guzzling vehicles be taxed at a higher rate than more efficient vehicles?

” A point of purchase tax that is targeted to bad choices is not unprecedented. We have extreme taxation on cigarettes, liquor and other items that damage the buyer and the public.

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