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June 18, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

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A big upturn in employment just isn’t happening this year

President Barack Obama recently hailed a small drop in the national unemployment rate from 9.9 to 9.7 percent as evidence that the economy is “getting stronger.” But the small gain in this politically critical statistic was largely a flu More...

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Will BP mess mean death for Gulf Coast businesses?

While I wasn’t yet born when it happened, everyone who grew up in my old hometown was well aware of the Knox Mine Disaster. More...