Wall Street Journal quotes Valley historian on process to OK stampsYoungstown VindicatorRichard Scarsella of Boardman, president of the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society, was quoted in a front-page Wall Street Journal article Friday about the amount of time it takes for the US Postal Service to approve stamp subjects. …and …
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The West Virginia football team moved its 2012 home game against James Madison to FedEx Field in Landover, Md., in a move that will bring at least $500,000 more in revenue than if the game were in Morgantown. More: continued here
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Waco fire marshals are investigating a second suspected arson at a former post office in two days. Firefighters were at 2400 Colonial Ave. about noon Friday to put out a small fire in the abandoned building, only two days after being called out on a similar blaze at the same …
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CBC.ca Stamps, Esks best of the WestMontreal GazetteThe Stamps, meanwhile, have scraped out a 2-1 record through three games but, offensively speaking, have been anything but effective in doing so. And, for the first time since September 2009, they enter a game against Edmonton with the Eskimos ahead of …Veteran …
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Read More »Plan for old post office complex: financial fantasy, architectural nightmare – Chicago Tribune (blog)
Chicago Tribune Plan for old post office complex: financial fantasy, architectural nightmareChicago Tribune (blog)There is so much financial fantasy in a British developer's $3.5 billion plan for redeveloping 20 acres including the old Chicago post office building that the proposal seems straight out of Disney. A 2000-foot skyscraper? Acres of …
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