Tide of crime washing up on detergent street
A columnist riffs on criminals laundering laundry detergent, citing an Associated Press report of Tide bottles found with cocaine in suburban Washington. He jokes about money laundering, brand loyalty to detergent, and the erosion of standards, then muses on white collar crime, police burden, and Shakespearean echoes.
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Cyn‘ics
Associated Press
Washington
Tide
America
Chamber of Commerce
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
Local Newsroom Personnel Named in Bluefield Telegraph Listing
Bluefield based paper announces staff roles with Darryl Hudson publisher Samantha Perry editor Bill Archer Charles Owens news editor and sports editor Andy Patton. City editor Brian Woodson also listed as an editor in chief level administrator.
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Bill Archer Charles Owens
Andy Patton
Brian Woodson
Wireless 4G Upgrade Uplifts Southwest Virginia Counties
A $7.5 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission funds a seven county project to expand cell service and wireless Internet to Tazewell Buchanan Dickenson Lee Russell Scott Wise and Norton. Upgraded towers and new ones will reach about 95 000 households and 200 000 residents with 4G this fall.
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Virginia Tobacco
Virginia
Tazewell
Buchanan
Tobacco Commission
Dickenson
Lee
Russell, Scott and Wise
Norton
Cumberland Plateau Planning District
Baldwin
Commonwealth
Gas math and political blame in letters to the editor
A pair of letters criticize Obama’s domestic oil strategy and U.S. supply versus reserves. One writer accuses him of misleading math on energy, while another laments local governance, demanding street repairs and new leadership for Princeton’s City Board, City Manager, and Mayor.
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America
Obama
Sanitary Board
Maryland Avenue
South Street
Princeton
Coal and energy policy debate roils U.S. politics
Readers weigh in on President Obama, Republicans, and energy policy arguing high gas prices were politicized during the campaign, criticizing coal use, oil drilling limits, and subsidies for alternative energy while citing DOE and CCS programs.
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Bama
Obama
Pelosi
Reid
George Bush
Solyndra
Samantha Perry
America
United States
China
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Reg Henry
The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Scripps Howard News Service
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Darryl Hudson
Southwest
Bluefield Board
EPA
Congress
Don Downard
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Department of Energy
DOE
ARRA
Office of Fossil Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Interior
US Geological Survey
U.S
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