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Food Rationing Confronts America
Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 11:35pm.
Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
School junk food ban creates 'sugar pushers'
Submitted by MichaelVail on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 5:39pm.
A ban on the sale of junk food in California schools has sparked a thriving underground market with pupils turning "sugar pushers" and selling contraband confectionery to their peers.
Prison Industrial Complex: Will California Spend More on Jails Than Universities?
Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 6:09pm.
As the number of prisoners in California prisons explodes, the state may soon spend more locking up its citizens than on public university education.
Six states testing pay-as-you-drive system
Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 1:49pm.
We certainly won't like it, but the undeniable truth is that our government will have to one day do something to generate more tax dollars from gasoline. The mere thought sounds crazy, with $3 per gallon gasoline lording over us like the British government vs. the colonists circa 1775
Californians Make Run on Countrywide Bank
Submitted by MichaelVail on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 2:38pm.
Customers of Countrywide Bank in California came in droves to the branch offices, phone lines and Web site to get their money out of it for fear the bank will declare bankruptcy.
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