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Demeter

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9. Look at oil, and reflect that gas just went over $4/gallon here

Reply to Roland99 (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 3, 2013, 08:48 AM

Jun 2013

I don't know why. Did they increase the gas tax? Did a local refinery that supplies us blow up? How would I know? It's not like we have a local daily paper....or even a weekly worth reading.

All this new form of newspaper ever talks about is development: what the city, the university, the real estate moguls are doing. And if there's any local government news, it's all about what government is doing to aid or impede the developers.

Radio is just as uninformative. Even NPR is sketchy on local news, because that would have to be generated by boots on the ground, and we don't have journalists anymore.

Sorry to be so cranky...I'm hungry, and the Kid is driving me nuts.

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