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- State budgets lean on property sales, leases
- The Arizona House of Representatives’ office, one of the buildings the state is considering selling as part of a sale-leaseback program to raise cash, would cost a private owner more than $18 million. Lawmakers would continue to occupy the…
- Stateline
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Stateline- Crews battling wildfire in Orange County
- A wind-driven wildfire whipped by gusts of nearly 50 miles per hour spread to 60 acres today while fire crews toiled in occasional blizzards of embers to keep flames away from homes two miles to the west in Anaheim Hills. The so-called "241…
- Desert Sun
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- Corporation still planning Fire Island wind farm
- The developer, California-based EnXco, had been an equity partner in the 54-megawatt ... By the end of 2011, the wind farm could be generating enough electricity for 18,000 homes. It needs to be operating by 2012 to qualify for a federal…
- Dispatch
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- New home sales up 6.2% nationwide in October, but down in West
- Nationwide, 430,000 new homes sold in October, the highest monthly total in more than a year. In a survey by Thomson Reuters, economists had predicted sales of 410,000 homes on the month. In the 13 western states, 93,000 new homes sold —…
- Denver Business Journal
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- Families of Americans Detained in Iran Send Video Message
- MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The mothers of three Americans held captive in Iran the last 117 days have recorded video messages they are asking Iranian authorities to deliver to their children. From their homes in Minnesota, California and…
- KRON4
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- State's job market shows signs of stabilizing
- • The unadjusted unemployment rate in the four-county region that includes Milwaukee and Waukesha counties declined for the fourth consecutive month to 8.2% in October from 8.5% in September and from its peak in June of 9.8%. The…
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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- Fire near Anaheim Hills 15% contained, 60 acres burned
- A wind-driven fire near Anaheim Hills has consumed 60-plus acres as more than 200 firefighters work to keep it from reaching homes. The fire was 15% contained as of 8:20 a.m. No structures were burned and there were no evacuations, said…
- Los Angeles Times Blogs
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- Could Solar Power Reenergize Far South Side?
- On the Far South Side of Chicago, a vacant industrial site is being transformed into a state-of-the-art energy project. When it’s done, it will be the biggest urban solar power plant in the country. Backers think it could be the start of a…
- Chicago Public Radio
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- Latest Articles
- Posted by Danny Weil on 11/25/2009 at 1:29pm Property tax can be not only the most democratic means of collecting needed local revenue,... Posted by Danny Weil on 11/25/2009 at 1:28pm depth coverage on these issues, however you only outline…
- Dissident Voice
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