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Pick Three, Spend $50, Save Your Local Economy
smallbusiness.aol.com — 3/50 encourages consumers to choose three locally-owned businesses and commit to spending $50 per month in them. Noting the influence that this relatively minor action can have, the project gives individual consumers a clear, concrete activity that they can do to support their local economies. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More…
Comcast, NBC announce $30 billion merger
washingtonpost.com — Comcast and NBC Universal announced their much-anticipated $30 billion merger on Thursday morning, heralding a deal that would create a new entertainment powerhouse with a vast distribution network and a rich trove of television and movie programming. (Submitted by FI5HERMAN) More…
Hard US Times Mean Mexicans Sending Money North
articles.sun-sentinel.com — Unemployment has hit immigrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: Instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States. (Submitted by casspa) More…
Free Speech: Not always free
articles.orlandosentinel.com — Ever since James Madison penned the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, many Americans have mistakenly believed that those 45 liberating words entitle them to say anything anywhere at any time. They don't. (Submitted by DigSomeMore) More…
10 Unexpected Things the New Economy Changed About Art Fairs
glasstire.com — But expectations for the seventh edition of London's Frieze Art Fair were turned upside down after the 2008 installment - a conservative, weakly-supported fair that fell just a month after Lehman Brothers went under, and as the world (the extra-planetary art world included) began to realize it was sliding into a major economic crisis. (Submitted by kplo) More…
Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea
news.yahoo.com — When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco. Many become hooked, and the World Health Organization warned Thursday it is a tradition putting the health of both mothers and babies at risk. (Submitted by bettverboten) More…
On the Job Hunt (Interactive)
foxnews.com — Watch breaking news videos and read news updates about On the Job Hunt on FOXNews.com. Each day, Fox News correspondents across the U.S. will explore new opportunities and challenges people face as they head to work or search for new jobs. Click on the map below to see where Fox has recently visited. (Submitted by bettverboten) More…
Secret Service officers on leave for gatecrashing
reuters.com — Three U.S. Secret Service officers were put on paid leave for their role in letting an uninvited couple breeze into President Barack Obama's debut state dinner last week, where they shook hands with the president and had smiling photos taken with various officials. (Submitted by hdar3415) More…

