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Average fuel prices fall across Texas
The Examiner
Comments HOUSTON (Map, News) - Retail gasoline prices are falling this week heading into the July 4th holiday. | The weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Thursday shows the average price of regular unleaded self-serve fell by four cents this week to $2.49 per gallon. It also fell four cen...
Tourists take pictures in front of the Las Vegas welcome sign in Las Vegas
(photo: AP / Jae C. Hong)
FOURTH OF JULY TOURISM: Las Vegas is the place for bargain seekers
Review Journal
| Travel's a virtual bargain these days. | A gallon of gasoline runs about $1.50 less than it did a year ago, and a typical domestic plane ticket cost about 20 percent less in the early summer than it cost a year earlier, according to numbers from travel-booking Web site Bing.com. | But tourism proj...
Closing Arguments: No more quotas The Supreme Court in "Ricci v. DeStefano" dealt a final ...
Philadelphia Daily News
| By John Yoo | Inquirer Columnist In striking another blow against the use of racial quotas last week, the Supreme Court challenged the nation's first minority president and Congress to help lead us to a post-racial America. | In , New Haven, Conn.,...
Post-Katrina New Orleans Fastest Growing City
ABC News
By PATRIK JONSSON | July 4, 2009 | Some of America's fastest-growing cities -- from Round Rock, Texas, to Raleigh, N.C. -- were the last to . Now they are hoping to harness their momentum and slingshot their way out of it. Cities in Texas, North Caro...
Number of active oil rigs grows by 11
The Oklahoman
Comments 0 | HOUSTON — The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by 11 this week to 928, the third consecutive week for an uptick after months of declines. Featured Gallery | Of the rigs running nat...
Combative Union Leader Steps From the Shadows
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON - Richard Trumka, the secretary-treasurer of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., can boast of something unusual for a labor leader - one of his videos has more than 535,000 hits on YouTube. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Sally Ryan for The New...
Petrol Office Oil Station - Oil price - Gasoline - Benzine - Fuel - Gasoline - Gas - Motorine
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Gas prices flat across US
The Examiner
Comments CAMARILLO, Calif. (Map, News) - The price of a gallon of gasoline held steady over the past two weeks, at $2.66 for a gallon of regular unleaded. | That's according to the...
An oil rig crew worker is photographed on the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. Oil prices settled above $118 a barrel Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as Tropical Storm Gustav spun toward the Gulf of Mexico on a possible collision course with offshore oil and gas platfo
AP / Mary Altaffer
Governor frets about gas prices
The Examiner
Comments CARSON CITY, Nev. (Map, News) - Gov. Jim Gibbons says gas prices are up as much as 50 cents from just one month ago in tourist-dependent Nevada and other states in the Wes...
**FILE** The Greenbrier Hotel, a five-star resort in West Virginia, is shown in this Nov. 30, 1998 file photo. The posh Greenbrier resort that has housed presidents and royalty in West Virginia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and signed a deal to sell itself to hotel giant Marriott International. The now four-star resort said Thursday, March 19, 2009, that its owner, Jacksonville, Fla.-based railroad company CSX Corp., would lend Marriott $50 million to operate the hotel for two years. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock, File)
AP / Jon C. Hancock, File
Scott brings health care reform opposition to Jacksonville
Business Journal
| Rick Scott told Duval County Republicans Thursday that he’s revving up his campaign to combat public support for Democrat-led health care reform on Capitol Hill. | Scott, w...
Property, income not only retirement tax concerns
Asbury Park Press
| Researching warm-weather retirement destinations has been a mission for Catherine Keller and her sisters in recent years. | Besides a shared desire to leave shoveling and shivering behind after too many northern winters, the natives of Long Island,...
Lawsuit against Regions moved back to JeffCo courts
Business Journal
Regions spent $15B on help for borrowers in '08 Regions sells billing services unit Regions names new head of credit cards, payment division | A lawsuit against Regions Financial Corp. filed by shareholders will be heard in a Jefferson County courtho...
Baker Hughes says number of active oil rigs climbed by 11 to 928
Star Tribune
| HOUSTON - The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by 11 this week to 928, the third consecutive week for an uptick after months of declines. | Of the rigs running nationwide, 688 were exploring for na...
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A couple of Cocktails at Sushi La  bar/restaurant       Ayia Napa  , Cyprus   Septemder 14th 2008
(photo: WN / John Sterkos)
Tales of the Cocktail after July 4th
The Examiner
Comment RSS Email Print | Three things everybody knows about the city of New Orleans--when you visit you'll never be short on good food, good music, and good drinks. To say that in a less than politically correct way: Come on down or staycation to get fat, jazzed, and buzzed. But did you ever think about mixing that crawfish, second line, and those...



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