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• Weekly Wrap: Exhausted Investors Look Ahead

  Is it over yet? It may be hard to believe, but US stocks were down less than 2 percent last week. Yup, after four gut-wrenching sessions, where stocks see-sawed by more than 4 percent on consecutive sessions, we ended up with a not too bad week, all things considered. Before we turn to the...

  Blog posts | 08-13-11

• Obama wants frustrated voters to press Congress

  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says people are frustrated by the partisanship that has gridlocked Washington and he wants them to tell lawmakers they must compromise for the sake of the country.The president used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to try to position himself...

  News items | 08-13-11

• Sheriff: Rapper incited phone flash mob on Twitter

  LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County sheriff's department says The Game incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system.Capt. Mike Parker tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/oGFHO1) that the rapper tweeted the number of the Compton station Friday and told his...

  News items | 08-13-11

• SF transit blocks cellphones to hinder protest

  SAN FRANCISCO — Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to...

  News items | 08-13-11

• SF transit blocks cellphones to hinder protest

  SAN FRANCISCO — Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to...

  News items | 08-12-11

• Cellphones blocked in SF to hinder transit protest

  SAN FRANCISCO — Transit officials said Friday that they blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said they turned off...

  News items | 08-12-11

• Real Estate Roundtable spent $690k lobbying in 2Q

  WASHINGTON — The Real Estate Roundtable, which represents commercial property owners, spent $690,000 in the second quarter lobbying federal officials on issues including Wall Street reform and the disposal of underused federal properties.That's down about 15 percent from the $810,000 the...

  News items | 08-12-11

• Hawaii upgrading system to sell power to grid

  HONOLULU — After a slow start to a program allowing people to sell renewable energy to Hawaii's power grid, it's being revamped to attract more interest and reduce the state's dependence on imported oil.Only a handful of solar power projects have gone online since the highly anticipated...

  News items | 08-12-11

• Donations help reactivate SETI's search for aliens

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — An array of 42 radio telescopes seeking signs of intelligent life in the universe will continue that work after private donors raised enough money to keep them going.The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, Institute received more than $200,000,...

  News items | 08-12-11

• US skier tossed off team over NY plane urination

  NEW YORK — A teenage skier accused of getting drunk and then urinating in the cabin of a JetBlue flight was dismissed from the U.S. Ski Team's development squad.Robert "Sandy" Vietze, of Warren, Vt., was detained by police at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning after...

  News items | 08-12-11

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