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Newspapers’ decline hurts city’s bottom line

By Chris Steller | 06.11.09 | 7:49 pm

The rapid devolution of print journalism gets regularly lamented for all the right reasons — among them the losses of investigative voices, institutional memories and checks on the powerful. A less-noted side-effect is cities’ loss of revenue from recycling newsprint.

The ‘green’ way to finish your fir or sack your spruce

By Tom Elko | 01.03.08 | 6:53 am

holiday trees Live Christmas trees have received holiday blessings from environmentalists for many reasons. Besides the fact that most artificial trees are made in part of