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Senate healthcare bill to include public option -- latimes.com

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Recovery Act Announcement: DOE Delivers More than $354 Million for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Projects in 22 States

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $354 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being awarded to 22 states to support energy efficiency and conservation activities.

Half Century Old Ford Assembly Plant to Become One of the Nation's Largest Renewable Energy Manufacturing Facilities

Ford announced this week that they are breathing new life into one of their older manufacturing plants with a redevelopment plan that will turn the site into one of the largest renewable energy facilities in the country.

Sex, Lies, and God - The Emerging Tale of Washington's 'Christian Mafia'

Americans have a fondness for conspiracy theories. For some reason we either like or fear the notion of shadowy brotherhoods of influential power-brokers conspiring to alter the course of the nation.

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Toby Barlow: Bike Among the Ruins

While bike enthusiasts in most urban areas continue to have to fight for their place on the streets, Detroit has the potential to become a new bicycle utopia. It's a town just waiting to be taken.

Eight in 10 Michigan medical marijuana applicants receive cards

About eight out of 10 Michigan residents who have applied to Michigan's Medical Marijuana Program have been granted cards that allow them to use marijuana legally for medicinal purposes.

Buffett: Pearl Harbor Has Passed - The Daily Beast

According to Warren Buffett, last September was the critical hour of the current economic crisis. Now that it has passed, he believes that better days are ahead, although the effects of the crisis will linger.

Soo Lock on inside track for funding

President Barack Obama has made no secret he is prioritizing billions in stimulus funds for "shovel-ready" public works projects - jobs that can start almost immediately because their designs are set and they've cleared regulatory hurdles.

Energy Composites Corporation Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Land for Blade Factory

Energy Composites Corporation (OTCBB:ENCC) announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the City of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin to acquire a 54 acre parcel for the purpose of building a 350,000 square foot composites fabrication plant for manufacturing wind turbine  …

Detroit Tries to Get on a Road to Renewal

Detroit has become an icon of the failed American city, but vast swaths of it don't look like city at all. Turn your Chevy away from downtown and the postcard skyline gives way first to seedy dollar stores and then to desolation.

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