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Need Goes Far Beyond Gas
All we hear about is the price of gas. Does anyone have any idea exactly how dependent we are on oil for everything other than gasoline? Oil is needed to make plastics for products and packaging, asphalt for our roads, tires for our cars and trucks,...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Vehicles
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Cities' silver lining
Will gas prices accomplish what state and local governments have failed to achieve? Will it put the brakes on sprawl? There are signs that people are rethinking the economics of long commutes, and freshly evaluating the benefits of living closer to the...Tags: Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Prices, Commodity Markets, Energy, Real Estate Buyers
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Ta-Nehisi Coates writes of father Paul in 'Beautiful Struggle'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT WAS brief. It was beautiful: that moment just after the smoke cleared and the air felt charged with possibility. Black people organized, overcame and began to bask in the promise, started constructing 3-D dreams out of what had been abstract potential....Tags: Leimert Park, Books and Magazines, Literature, Hip Hop, Family
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Rising costs send Alcoa profit down
From Chicago Tribune news servicesAlcoa Inc.'s second-quarter net income dropped 24 percent as aluminum prices failed to keep pace with climbing costs. Nevertheless, shares rose more than 3 percent in after-hours trading as the results beat Wall Street's expectations. Kicking off...Tags: Texas, Alcoa Incorporated, Earnings
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Deal on table for Reese parcel
Chicago Tribune reportersThough the housing and credit markets are reeling, Chicago is poised to make a major bet on real estate, proposing an $85 million deal for the purchase of the Michael Reese Hospital property as a potential site for a 2016 Olympic Village. The transaction...Tags: McCormick Place, Douglas Park, Washington Park, Richard M. Daley, Mundelein
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No need to raise taxes for roads
Virginia's families face falling home prices, increased real property taxes, skyrocketing gas and food prices, an 18 percent electric-rate hike for Dominion, a 6.4 percent monthly increase in natural gas prices, almost five decades of federal deficit...Tags: Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Food Industry, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Ethanol, Transportation
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Stillwater bridge opens, but with restrictions
Heavy trucks are still prohibited from crossing the Stillwater Lift Bridge over the St. Croix River. The bridge reopened Monday evening after being closed for more than 5{ hours following a truck crash. But the bridge is now restricted to only cars...Tags: Minnesota, Vehicles
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Chicago moving ahead to buy land for Olympics
The city is moving ahead to buy land that could be part of the Olympic Village if Chicago is awarded the 2016 Summer Games. The city intends to buy a soon-to-be-closed hospital campus for $85 million from medical supply giant Medline Industries of...Tags: Prices, Environmental Cleanup, Mundelein
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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CDT
The Mississippi River has reopened to commercial navigation near Red Wing after the channel was dredged. Sediment buildup had caused two tow boats and their barges to go aground Sunday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended the Coast Guard...Tags: Corporate Crime, Transportation Accidents, Minnesota, Trials, Road Accidents
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Morning reads: The week of living economically
Spin CycleThis week, both Obama and McCain are trying to hammer home how much they care about the economic struggles of ordinary Americans. Both campaigns point to some critical reviews of each other's plans in the morning papers: The McCain......Tags: John McCain, Political Candidates, Private Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Health Care
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