All Stories from September 17, 2011 (Change date)
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Column’s focus should be lawmakersSep 17, 2011 6:00 am - One wonders if the purpose of Jake Griffin’s Tax Watchdog column was to “stir the pot” — so that the private sector readers will be against the pensions and benefits leg...
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A fast facelift for a boring bi-levelSep 17, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — The morning Lauren Liess moved into her suburban home here, she took a sledgehammer to the drop ceiling in the basement. Later that day, she and husband Dav...
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Gulf Coast's oily mess now just a memorySep 17, 2011 6:00 am - PENSACOLA, Fla. — Last summer John Ehrenreich wondered whether his Pensacola Beach go-cart track and parasailing business would make it through the BP Deepwater Horizon ...
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Apple cuts French App Store’s ‘Jew Or Not Jew’ appSep 17, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called “Jew or Not Jew?”, from its online App Store in France. The app let users consult a database of celebrities a...
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Filmmaker Nadine Labaki is new face of LebanonSep 17, 2011 6:00 am - PARIS — Lebanon may be known more for its civil strife than its fledgling movie industry, but Nadine Labakih hopes to change all that. The director-actress is out to tra...
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Review: Livescribe smartpen is iPad’s oppositeSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Here’s a consumer electronics riddle: What’s the opposite of the iPad? Answer: the Livescribe Echo “smartpen.” It’s as if Livescribe and Apple both looked at ...
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The SoapboxSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - Wheaton hero honored: Thoughtful work went into the efforts of a committee that recommended the commons of Wheaton North High School be named for Staff Sgt. Robert Mille...
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Digital Folio takes shopping service out of betaSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - DENVER — Denver-based Digital Folio Inc. on Tuesday formally launched a service that lets retailers undercut each other to woo online shoppers. Digital Folio has been of...
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Follow? No, Facebook to let users `subscribe’Sep 17, 2011 5:00 am - In a nod to rival social networks, Facebook is letting its users “subscribe” to news from other members — even those they are not friends with. Facebook said in a blog p...
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Thanks for helping stop Muddy PawsSep 17, 2011 5:00 am - To all who gave so much of themselves to ensure justice was done in the Muddy Paws case, thank you. The animals that died have found peace in the meadows described in th...