In a cost saving move, Starbucks is shuttering 600 stores, with job losses totaling in excess of 12,000.

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Stop with the push for ethanol production, already. Over a year ago, reports indicated that only a small percentage of corn yields could go into ethanol without impacting prices in food markets. Certainly I wasn't the only one who heard those reports?!

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Motivated by soaring prices at the pump, record numbers of commuters are parking their cars in favor of mass transit.

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I'm still on vaycay and imagine my shock when I read this:

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This election cycle has been a treat for the mind and the senses. We've seen cable news use social networking to pose tough questions (OK, sometimes from snowmen) to candidates.

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It was words to that effect that I heard in response to my assertion that there was a ton of chatter about race, Obama and religion on the blogs (at a race relations meeting where we were discussing these very matters--huh!) and that there was an opportunity to support this emerging (hell, emerged!) medium in channeling that discussion into something productive.

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The airlines are clearly struggling. House members are trying to figure out how Southwest Airlines could have for so long violated safety rules and how the FAA, the agency responsible for oversight, could have missed these safety violations.

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In response to several of you who asserted that these were, in fact, progressive values, I've added the following categories:

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