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does anyone know when this will take effect

* Slowdown, debt crisis to delay rate hike to Q4 at earliest * Italy, Spain woes put pressure on ECB to resume bond buys * S&P official says intervention needed to calm market (Updates with meeting start, …

how does this impact my state

Call comes on back of mildly improved US payrolls. 6 Aug 2011 12:53 PM

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The Rhode Island isle may not have Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket’s cachet, but the scenery is spectacular. I am standing atop Clay Head, a 70-foot-high bluff, looking over miles and miles of open ocean on a clear summer morning. It is an ideal way to greet a day that will include hiking, biking, birding, skimming stones and eating my weight in fried clams. And I have to smile. Back home in St …

it should be interested what change will this make

Jennifer Pharr Davis set the unofficial record for the fastest hike of the entire Appalachian Trail, yet she said she never ignored the beauty of the 2,180-mile trek from Maine to Georgia.

great news thought i would never see this.

The Port Authority this afternoon is going to announce a monster two-stage toll hike to generate more than $1 billion in new revenue for the agency that runs the region’s airports, tunnels and bridges, according to a source briefed on the package. The first toll hike, scheduled to hit…

this is so true

“While we understand the Port Authority leadership’s concerns about a potential downgrade to its bond rating if toll increases are not instituted, our primary concern with this proposal is its impact on our respective states’ residents and commercial users of the crossings.”– Gov. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov…

if people only knew

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. short-term interest-rate futures traders brought forward bets for a 2013 Federal Reserve rate hike after a government report on Friday showed private employers were stepping up hiring.

Rome wasnt built in a day!

Jennifer Pharr Davis set the unofficial record for the fastest hike of the entire Appalachian Trail, yet she said she never ignored the beauty of the 2,180-mile (3,500-kilometer) trek down the eastern U.S. She saw 36 bears, moose, porcupines and just about every sunrise and sunset during her journey, which lasted exactly 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes since she left Mount Katahdin in Maine on …

great news thought i would never see this.

Jennifer Pharr Davis set the unofficial record for the fastest hike of the entire Appalachian Trail, yet she said she never ignored the beauty of the 2,180-mile trek from Maine to Georgia.

never miss a day, thanks for the blog

New York drivers swerved away from a head-on crash with a massive toll hike. The Port Authority yesterday proposed hiking E-ZPass tolls on its Hudson River and Staten Island crossings next month by a whopping 50 percent — but hours later Govs. Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of…