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Attendance drops at some Wis. county fairs
High gas prices and the struggling economy seem to be taking a toll on Wisconsin's county fairs. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's county fairs coordinator says a couple of the fairs held so far have reported lower...Tags: Weather Reports, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Balancing safety concerns against the wishes of families of highway fatality victims, West Virginia's Division of Highways wants to offer the option of state-maintained memorial signs near crash sites. The cost to the grieving relatives -- up to $400....Tags: Houston Astros, Prosecution, Transportation, Murder, Major League Baseball
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Let market drive energy innovation
The Sun's editorial "Thinking green" (July 21) directed much praise toward Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens. The editorial states that Mr. Gore's plan "offers the best chance to give the United States a brighter energy future and a cleaner environment."...Tags: Al Gore, Renewable Energy
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Suozzi pushes for cap on property tax increases
william.murphy@newsday.comNassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, who chairs a state panel on property tax relief, kicked off a campaign yesterday to get state lawmakers to approve a cap on property taxes. He said he had written a letter to all 212 state legislators asking them to...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Laws, Sheldon Silver, Elections, Upper House
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Oil gains ground; natural gas fizzles
Energy market investors managed to win back modest oil gains Thursday, after crude's big drop a day earlier. But they again drove natural gas prices sharply lower as a three-week sell-off of that fuel continued unabated.
Light, sweet crude for...Tags: AAA, Commodity Markets, Natural Resources, New York Mercantile Exchange, Energy Resources
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Big drop in existing home sales sends stocks lower
AP Business WriterWall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Mortgages, Metal and Mineral, Washington Mutual Inc., New York Mercantile Exchange
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Markets' Mood Shifts
Associated PressWall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing-home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent optimism. The major indexes fell about...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Mortgages, Metal and Mineral, Wachovia Corp., Fannie Mae
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'Green' jobs expand Michigan worker retraining
Associated Press WriterWhen Joseph Houle lost his job at a Petoskey factory in late 2006, he decided to retrain to be a police officer. This month, he started working as a marine deputy with the Cheboygan County Sheriff's Department. The state's No Worker Left Behind program,...Tags: Employees, Retraining, Colleges and Universities, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Asian markets fall, tracking Wall St.
Associated PressHONG KONG — Asian stock markets fell sharply Friday, as an overnight drop on Wall Street and more concerns about the U.S. housing and financial sectors led many investors to take profits after a recent rally. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index shed...Tags: Sales, Automotive Equipment, New York Mercantile Exchange, Honda Motor Co., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Incorporated
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U.S. claims Optiver influenced oil prices
Chicago Tribune ReporterFederal regulators Thursday accused a trading firm with operations in Chicago of manipulating oil prices, although the charges are unlikely to prove congressional suspicions that speculation fueled oil's climb to as high as $145 a barrel. The alleged...Tags: Prosecution, Richard Durbin, Commodity Markets, Byron Dorgan, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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