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A dump truck personnel seen collecting garbage bags from a slum area in Quezon City , Philippines, April 12, 2009.
(photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Blade-equipped garbage trucks to deploy at midnight
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Starting about midnight, Milwaukee's 120 garbage and recycling trucks will be outfitted with blades to plow city streets, Department of Public Works spokeswoman Cecilia Gilbert. | By Thursday night, 108 salt trucks had been deployed in the City of Milwaukee, with the main streets salted at least thr...
apartment building
(photo: WN / Priya Dashini)
Affordable apartment proposal advances in Waukesha
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Waukesha - The Plan Commission has recommended rezoning and preliminary plans for a 70-unit affordable apartment project and a 36-unit "memory care" facility for seniors with dementia on Waukesha's northwest side. | The proposal comes from MSP Real Estate and Development Co. for a 9.5-acre site off ...
Another View: Private Equity Creates Value
The New York Times
| Bronwyn Bailey, Ph.D. is the vice president of research at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. | A recent Deal Professor column by Steven M. Davidoff attempts to set aside the political rhetoric and take a sober account of the private equity...
Earned income tax credit is often overlooked
Knox News
| NEW YORK (AP) — One out of five taxpayers eligible for a key tax credit don't claim it on their federal returns. | More than 26 million workers received earned income tax credits averaging $2,240 last year — but roughly 6.5 million left potenti...
Netflix, Hulu, YouTube Corner The Traditional TV Market With Their Own Programming
Crunch
Get Culture Alerts Sign Up Submit this story digg reddit stumble | NEW YORK -- After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series. | Over ...
Running the Numbers: Making Sense of Our Costs
The New York Times
| Staying Alive | The struggles of a business trying to survive. | I’m continuing my series of posts detailing how much it cost to run my business in 2011 and looking for conclusions that can be drawn from those figures. Thursday, I discussed some ...
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
Lexington Herald-Leader
| NEW YORK — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. | The word is "fracking" - as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to fre...
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
my SA
| NEW YORK (AP) — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. | The word is "fracking" — as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil a...
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. | The word is "fracking" - as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock. ht...
Economy
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, before the House Budget Committee.
(photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
Bernanke opening the door to the Fed a bit wider
Seattle Times
WASHINGTON - | What's next - cameras in the Federal Reserve's meetings? | Don't count on it. | But it's anyone's guess how far the Fed will go in its mission to be more publicly open - beyond having the chairman hold now-quarterly news conferences and its latest gesture: forecasting where its members think interest rates are headed. | Under Ben Ber...
Wall Street
US Dollar - Currency
(photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
US stocks up on Federal Reserve signal on interest rates
The Australian
| US stocks erased early losses as investors cheered the Federal Reserve's signal that it would keep interest rates low until at least late 2014. | The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 37 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 12,713 in afternoon trade. The blue-chip index had fallen as many as 96 points shortly after the opening bell, but shot high...



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