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Will A Hotel Replace The Boerum Hill Post Office?Cobble Hill Blog (blog)Brownstoner: A tipster tells us the post office at 542 Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill will shut down over the next year, and the postal carriers will relocate to nearby stations, so the building owner can put up a …

The Atlantic Over 50% of Food Stamp Recipients Live in the SuburbsThe AtlanticThe housing bust didn't just sink the world economy. It sunk the suburbs too. Now, you probably think of white picket fences, big backyards, and perhaps a whiff of existential despair when you think about the suburbs. But …

Cathy Lanier rose from poverty to become a popular chief of police in the US capital More: continued here

Gridlock in Congress keeps food stamp funding higher in OregonOregonLive.comA recent analysis of a state jobs program found that 74 percent of its participants got jobs and got off cash welfare assistance, but only 22 percent were able to get off food stamps because they jobs they got were low-paying. …

The Sun Olly Murs: Mum flogs my clothes on eBayThe SunHE'S sold millions of records worldwide and supported Robbie Williams on tour, but Olly Murs hasn't forgotten the value of money. The Dear Diary singer has revealed he helps his mum make a few extra quid by giving her old …

WRGB Police: Woman offers rare stamps for husband's deathwtvr.comNEW YORK (CNN) — A Brooklyn woman is facing conspiracy and solicitation charges after allegedly offering an undercover police officer $60,000 worth of rare postage stamps to kill her husband, the New York Police Department says. Elena Sava-Adams, 57 …Woman Offers Rare Stamps …

CEOs should pay for their employee food stamps, MedicaidDeseret NewsI found the "Food Stamp Fraud: Big problem or exaggeration?"(Aug. 29) article interesting in that it based so much importance on the increased number of participants since 2008. Well, what happened in '08? The bigger fraud has been what has happened …

Alexander Fury: The ecstasy and the agony: confessions of an eBay addictThe IndependentIt's a tricky business – eBay is kind of like another country. There's a special language, full of odd punctuation and misleading cadences. Type in “Celine” and you're confronted not with a secondhand array of Phoebe Philo's greatest …

THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) wants to expand its security tax stamp project to cover distilled spirits by next year, in compliance with the new “sin” tax law signed in 2012, an official said last week. More: continued here

They say the first step in tackling any addiction is admitting you have a problem. So here's a confession: right now, I have 12 windows open in my internet browser. They're all eBay.         More: continued here