RICHLAND, Wash. - If you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard.
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ELKHART, Ind.
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Halloween has come and gone, but your U.S. government is focusing some attention and a bit of money provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on bats. Not the baseball kind, but the furry, flying, cave-dwelling creatures more often associated with trick-or-treating than federal spending.
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ELKHART, Ind. - Anthony and Carolyn Hunt don’t know how many jobs a $3 million federal stimulus grant to prevent lead poisoning in young children will bring to their county, but to them that’s beside the point.
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For some stories I'm writing about concealed weapons and folks who carry them, I'm interested in interviewing people who have actually used their concealed weapons to avert a threat to themselves or others.
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Despite free tickets, rabble rouser filmmaker Michael Moore’s new indictment of capitalism failed to rouse a full house in Elkhart, one of the 10 down and out American cities where Moore arranged gratis showings.
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John Brecher / msnbc.com Terry Gonyon in the kitchen of the eight-bedroom home he lost to foreclosure. Terry Gonyon can’t explain exactly why jobs are picking up, but he’s not asking any questions.
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Jim Seida / msnbc.com file Jennifer Holderread is growing more concerned as her husband runs through his unemployment benefits and her own job seems less secure.
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The region's severe economic downturn has cast a pall over one of its largest and most revered charitable events, the yearly Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale set for Saturday at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds.
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A photograph purporting to show a Russian submarine surfacing off New Jersey actually shows dredging equipment, the Coast Guard says. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
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Images of gun-toting citizens near public appearances by President Obama have exposed subtlety and nuance in America’s ongoing debate over firearms. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
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Just before Tyler Kales was led from a Mount Vernon, Wash., courtroom to begin serving his sentence earlier this month, he apologized to the family of his victim.
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ELKHART, Ind. - Chris Burkhead says there’s no secret to his family’s continued success in the battered manufacturing sector: Do quality work, respond to customers’ needs and constantly improve efficiency on the production line.
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GOSHEN, Ind. - Sergio Velasco is running on empty.
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ELKHART, Ind. - Outsiders puzzled that a smart, career-oriented young woman would return after college to a place that many of her school chums couldn’t wait to leave should consider Elkhart native Angie Recchio’s story.
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Faces of Elkhart: Jennifer Holderread's family has been hard hit by layoffs in the RV industry, but she says townspeople are pulling together to make it through the tough times.
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ELKHART, Ind. - If you think Terry Gonyon is the kind of guy who has trouble being industrious or working hard, check out the stove he built.
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ELKHART, Ind. - Adam Williams’ improbable journey to Elkhart began in a hail of bullets on a dark road in the Mississippi Delta at 2 a.m. one morning in 1992.
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To the list of cutbacks that Elkhart County residents are making in these tough economic times, add divorce.
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Another great piece on my favorite subject: Why do so many otherwise respectable publications think the silly drivel of anonymous respondents is something that deserves pixels?
Thanks to the media (yes, like us), we are buffeted by bad news: A steady drumbeat of articles about lay-offs, foreclosures, battered budgets, businesses in decline, more layoffs.
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With the swine flu outbreak rapidly spreading, state and local health officials are queasily considering what effect a pandemic could have on their budgets, already due for deep spending cuts amid the lingering recession.
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BOTHELL, Wash. - After two years of married life in a 680-square-foot, one-bedroom Seattle condo, Lori and Chris Kirsten were ready to spread out in a real house with room for a home theater and a yard where the Labrador retriever they had always wanted could roam.
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GOSHEN, Ind. - In a house as full of sorrow as it was empty of belongings, Gabriela Aguirre described how she and her husband, Alfredo, reached boldly for the American Dream, clutched it tightly for three years and then watched it slip from their grasp along with Alfredo’s job.
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This is a great piece on a thorny issue. I'm involved in Newsvine and other forums because of my job, but not at all sure that I would be otherwise for this very reason.
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