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- Consumers log stronger-than-expected spending rise
- WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers got back in the buying mood in October as their incomes grew modestly, an encouraging sign for the budding economic recovery. The Commerce Department reported today that consumer spending rose a brisk 0.7 percent…
- Oregonian
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- New US home sales rise 6.2 percent
- WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes rose more than expected last month to the highest level in more than a year as the housing market shows stability after its historic collapse. The Commerce Department says sales rose 6.2 percent to a…
- Oregonian
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- 19 minutes ago
- Lithium-Ion Battery Maker EnerDel Enters Utility Energy…
- INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel will enter the utility-scale energy storage market, supplying batteries for a major new smart grid program announced yesterday by the US Department…
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- 1 hour ago
- see what Todd Harrison has written »
- Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville, has 18 years of experience on Wall Street. After graduating from Syracuse University with honors (1991), he spent seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley (vice…
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- 2 hours ago
- $178 million project to improve NW power system
- KENNEWICK — The Northwest has been selected for a landmark $178 million Smart Grid Demonstration Project that could help lay the groundwork for more energy-efficient power distribution nationwide. Battelle will manage the Northwest project,…
- Tri-City Herald
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- 3 hours ago
- DIY Streets: How locals transformed rat runs into public…
- Getting cars cars to slow down instead of racing through backstreet rat runs benefits everyone from cyclists to residents. But a windswept street on a November night in the East End of London is not the first place you'd expect to find…
- The Guardian
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- 2 hours ago
The Guardian- Letters to the editor: Don't lend to Doofus
- Your second cousin, Doofus, comes to you and wants to borrow $100. You politely remind him that he borrowed $20 a couple years ago, came back a few months later and asked for $30. Again early this year it was another $30 and just last month…
- Oregonian
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- 3 hours ago
- Manufactured home plant to close
- Another Santiam canyon firm dependent on the ebbs and flows of the housing market is closing its Stayton plant. But the move for Karsten Homes, a maker of manufactured and modular homes, saves "two-thirds of the jobs of existing team…
- Statesman Journal
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- 4 hours ago
- Reservation for two at Reeder Beach RV Park
- As a life-long visitor to Reeder Beach, I would like to thank Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury for stepping in to allow the long-term residents of the park to remain temporarily in their homes (" RV park residents get a break…
- Oregonian
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- 3 hours ago
- Program helps woman buy foreclosed home
- ... doing better ... home. Before she could apply for a mortgage, Buchholz had to attend classes on the ABCs of homebuying, as required by the program. When she was sure she qualified, Buchholz said she drove around looking at foreclosed…
- Statesman Journal
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- 4 hours ago