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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.

Recycling law may stem ‘tsunami’ of discarded TV sets

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.28.09 | 4:06 pm

With just three weeks to go until the deadline for digital TV conversion, government officials, thrift store owners and landfill operators are bracing themselves for a wave of outdated sets.