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- Hot and getting hotter in Ky.; storms possible Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:20AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Excessive heat building in the Midwest is affecting conditions in Kentucky with the western and northern parts of the commonwealth under a heat advisory. High temperatures Tuesday were expected to reach 95 degrees in Paducah and Owensboro, 94 degrees in Louisville and 91 degrees in northern Kentucky cities. The heat advisory was in effect until 9 p.m. EDT, but there ...
- Christie restoring aid to cities Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:42PMTRENTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday that he planned to reverse two of the line-item budget cuts Democrats singled out as particularly egregious: funds used to treat sexually and physically abused children and aid for ailing cities that otherwise couldn’t meet payroll or debt payments obligations without crippling tax increases.
- Editorial: After the fire Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:13AMTHE DAY after a fire reveals the worst: for victims, of how little they saved or have to move on; for community leaders, of how deficiencies replicate disasters. The multiple fires that struck different communities in the cities of Cebu and Mandaue last week resurface the same old urban traps: narrow roads that limit the access of firemen and fire trucks to the site of the fire; electrical ...
- Andre K. Fowlkes: Better data will help Memphis address unique employment challenges Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:00PMThe United States is venturing into territory we have not seen in years: we are now into the third year of average annualized unemployment above 9 percent. These are numbers rivaled only by the recession in the early 1980s.
- Clinical Trials Program Offers Treatment Options Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:25PMCONTRIBUTED
- China Real Estate: Blowing The Bubbly Bubble Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:59PMThe idea that there is a bubble in China and that there will be a hard landing in China is finally gaining some traction these days, as various analysts and traders in Hong Kong are telling me (oh yes, they are not really bothered by debt ceiling, which really bugs me).
- Women’s World Cup - This Time, a Show Worth Watching Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:39PMI’m struck by how rapidly the women have improved, even since 2007 — and by a weird sensation of watching history in motion.
- BLOG: Stop Going to GameStop Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:05PMHave you seen the Best Buy across the street? Dear GameStop, Your stores are poorly organized. They offer a cheap-looking mish-mash of games strewn about the store on racks—never shelves—and in glass cases. The glass cases are reserved for used GBA and DS games that didn’t come with cases or, in most instances, instruction manuals. Half your stock of used…I’m sorry…”pre-owned” games are in ...
- Baylor Regional Medical Center set to expand Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:16PMHospital officials at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine have announced the construction of a new $100.5 million, five-story patient tower and expansion. The new tower is expected to open in sometime during the summer of 2013.
- Career Hunt SK Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 9:07PMSevere weather is expected to occur on the Canadian prairies this summer and Greg Johnson, Regina tornado chaser, says we are not prepared. Johnson has seen his fair share of storms and severe weather.
- National parks combine conservation, agriculture Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:56PMMore woodlands are letting small-scale urban farmers use their land, with an eye on local-food movements
- Pay as you drive Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:56PMHow smartphone-style contract plans could be coming to the car showroom.
- 1. Firefly MD Eddy Leong answers your 10 questions Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:44PMDatuk Eddy Leong answers your 10 questions.
- Fifteen suppositions from John Maus on art, music, blowing up cities on film and Ariel Pink Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:04PMJohn Maus, the synthpunk artist based in Minnesota, is a thinking man’s musician, spouting off theory gleaned from his years studying music composition at CalArts and politics and aesthetics at the European Graduate School, where both filmmaker Atom Egoyan and...
- Mixed feelings as Austria bids farewell to the last of the Habsburgs Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:59PMAustrians felt a mixture of clashing emotions as Otto von Habsburg was buried at 98
- Community development budget proposed Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:07PMMESQUITE - The community development department is divided into five divisions; administration, building inspection, environmental code, licensing and compliance, and planning.
- :: 15, Jul 2011 :: SPEECH BY MR LEE YI SHYAN, MINISTER OF STATE, MINISTRY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY AND MINISTRY OF ... Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:04PM1. Let me thank you for inviting me to the ISES Global Conference on Service Excellence 2011 . This annual conference has grown to be a useful platform for researchers and practitioners to learn new findings and exchange business insights that have created the latest success stories in the service industry.
- POLICOM: Baldwin County economy in top 5 percent Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:37PMBAY MINETTE, Ala. — Each year, POLICOM Corp. of Palm City, Fla., analyzes the economic strength of 363 Metropolitan Statistical Areas containing approximately 1,100 counties, and 576 Micropolitan Statistical Areas containing almost 700 counties.
- Blockade of Cuba left valley on edge Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:12AMNext year will mark a half-century from the day when the United States teetered on the brink of nuclear war.
- Belmont sets salaries, benefits for new fire department personnel Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 9:29PMThe plan reflects a 10 percent reduction in wages from what Belmont-San Carlos firefighters currently earn, according to a Belmont staff report.
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