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Walmart’s big push into groceries is not good for small farmers
Walmart now dominates the U.S. grocery sector, selling more food than the three biggest grocery chains combined.
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New York governor wants to return Sandy-damaged neighborhoods to nature
It turns out that buying up damaged houses and converting the land into wetlands or parks would be rather expensive.
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San Francisco plans expensive ‘managed retreat’ from rising seas
It's an expensive plan, but rerouting a highway before it's flooded could end up saving a boatload of money in the end.
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Alaska senator offers a fresh, new energy policy calling for more drilling in Alaska
And more drilling everywhere else too. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's patrons in the oil industry will golf-clap for this one.
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GOP could reach out to cities, if not for the elephant in the room
Harvard economist Ed Glaeser argues that Republicans should mend fences with American cities -- and that city folk are natural GOPers. Dude clearly doesn’t know many city folk.
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How the shale boom came to North Dakota — and how it’s spreading west
There's lots of shale oil in Colorado and California too, but residents of those states are more suspicious of fracking.
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Dolphins have been acting really nice lately and we’re scared
Perhaps we've been too hasty in trashing dolphins. Or perhaps something weird is going on.
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We kinda never want to get on the subway again after reading this horror story
D.C.'s WMATA did when it left hundreds of passengers stranded underground for hours after a track fire stopped service.
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Dodge made ‘God made a farmer’ Super Bowl ad, and I made an angry face
Dodge's whitewashed ad wasn't honoring farm work as it exists in America today.
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China’s pollution reaches Japan. Next stop: California
The record levels of soot pollution are making their way around the world, as air pollution tends to do.
