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DARLINGTON MP Jenny Chapman has opened the revamped post office in Mowden Park. More: continued here

Eat the Rich! How the Food Stamp Cuts Reflect an Emerging Front in the Climate …Huffington PostThere are any number of reasons to celebrate Friday's defeat of the 2013 Farm Bill in the House. Notably, the House version of the Farm Bill would have made a whopping $20.5 billion cut …

Royal Mail: A Deal That Doesn't Even Make Sense for the CityHuffington Post UKAs a conservative commentator, I have been naturally concerned by the move to privatise Royal Mail, both in terms of the potential damage to the institution and its services, but also to the Conservative Party politically. Yet …

Arkansas Times Tom Cotton's extreme fight against food stamps: Biblical it isn'tArkansas TimesAll four congressmen are Republicans and critical in varying degrees of the big nutrition program, formerly called food stamps, that helps millions of people, about 551,000 of them in Arkansas, buy groceries. Three of them—Tim Griffin, Steve Womack …

EBay's Secret Data Center Efficiency Weapon: Fuel CellsInformationWeek SMB (blog)EBay first established a more conventional unit in its Topaz data center, which opened in May 2010 on a 60-acre site outside Salt Lake City. In its second phase, dubbed Project Quicksilver, eBay implemented fuel cells as an onsite power source …

While farm subsidies are bad for business, demand for the SNAP program proves food stamps are an effective and efficient part of America’s social safety net More: continued here

swissinfo.ch Post Office bank enters brave new worldswissinfo.chThe banking arm of the Swiss Post Office, PostFinance, started trading as an independent operation on Tuesday albeit with restrictions that prevent it from offering its own mortgage and business loans directly to customers. The legal conversion of …and more » More: continued here

Wired In Search of Tech Cred, eBay Builds a New Engine for a New IdentityWiredIt was 2008, and eBay had a problem. Mark Carges had just arrived to lead the tech side of what the company would come to call the “turnaround” of its core marketplace business. The brand was …

Facing post office cuts, residents circulating petitionLompoc RecordOn Wednesday, resident Janeen Chester sat at a table near the entrance collecting signatures from people coming in and out of the post office. She said the main concern for post office users is the reduction of hours could lead to the eventual …

Residents and businesspeople in Los Olivos are rallying to reverse a plan to cut the post office’s retail service time by 10 hours a week, starting in mid-July. More: continued here