Pets Gift Boom Drives 2007 Holiday Spending
A national rise in pet gift buying fuels a booming market with upmarket items from organic cookies to cashmere beds. Pet stores report lavish holiday offerings and shoppers treating dogs like family, while industry groups note the recession-resistant trend and broader cultural shift toward pet humanization.
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Packaged Facts
Rockville
Steve Coghlan
Chicago
Lincoln Park
American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
Doug Poindexter
World Wide Pet Industry Association
Ing
Barker & Meowsky
Alice Lerman
Two-State Grant Funds Marais des Cygnes Osage Basin Clean Up
A substantial EPA grant will fund water quality projects in 17 counties along the Marais des Cygnes Osage river basin in Kansas and Missouri. Initiatives include upgrading failing septic systems, promoting smart growth, improving forestry and cattle management, and introducing porous concrete parking and bioretention cells to reduce runoff. An education program will accompany the effort, shifting toward preventive measures with local agencies and developers.
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Missouri
Marais Des Cygnes River
Osage River
Franklin
Anderson
Osage
Miami
Coffey
Marais Des Cygnes-Osage
EPA
KDHE
Roderick Bremby
Bremby
Karl Fett
Kansas City
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Missouri Water
Digm
Fett
Lake Region Resource Conservation & Development Council
Hillsdale Water Quality Project
Osage Valley Rc&d of
Kansas State University Extension Service
CHIP Representative Resigns as City Hosts Habitat Groundbreaks
City commissioners heard from Lisa Rivers about two Habitat for Humanity projects in Ottawa with groundbreakings at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at 803 North Birch Street and 1:30 p.m. Sunday at 610 South Walnut Street. Trent Lancaster resigned after six years on the CHIP committee. The city will seek a successor and consider rezoning 2715 Montana Road to CS Countryside at Wednesday’s meeting.
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Lisa Rivers
Habitat For Humanity
Ottawa
Rivers
N. Birch St
S. Walnut St
Trent Lancaster
Montana Road
Dinner discussions on school finance and business designation
Officials at a legislative dinner discussed rolling two year school finance plans to help districts budget ahead. They also touched on payday loan regulation, early childhood education, and a proposed remedy for Rails to Trails counties. Teacher recruitment and salaries were highlighted as critical, with focus on science and math staffing.
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Foster and Smith
Marty Smith
Rhinelander
Wis
Derrick Carter
Carter
Chicago
Roy Dunn
County Commission
Joe Hamerickhouse
Dennis George
Tom Holland
Jorgensen
Pat Apple
Kansas
Ottawa
Marge Stevens
Hamerickhouse
George
U.S
Jeanette Lowry
Bill Otto
State Board of Education
Holland
British held Briton shown in Baghdad video demand UK withdrawal
In Baghdad an Arab TV broadcast showed a bearded man in a room under a sign for the Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq. He claimed the video was made on Nov 18. A statement demanded Britain pull its troops from Iraq within 10 days, with no stated consequences. Police said a bombing near a police station northeast of Baghdad wounded several and injured others.
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Baghdad
Britain
Iraq
Al-Arabiya Television
U S report on Iran aligns with IAEA findings
In Vienna, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei called the U.S. intelligence review consistent with the agency’s own assessment that Iran halted nuclear weapons development in 2003 under pressure. He noted Iran has not provided evidence of an ongoing weapons program or undeclared facilities, while urging clarification on past activities. U.S. envoy Gregory L. Schulte described the NIE as offering positive news and prospects for diplomacy.
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Vienna
Austria
U.S
Iran
U.N. Atomic Watchdog
International Atomic Energy Agency
Mohamed ElBaradei
ElBaradei
Tehran
AEA
Gregory L. Schulte
British teacher freed from Sudan teddy bear case returns home
Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, arrives at Heathrow after being pardoned. She says she is upset she may have offended anyone. Two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords met Sudan's president to secure her release.
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Sudan
London
Muhammad
Gillian Gibbons
Heathrow
Gibbons
Britain
House of Lords
Omar al-Bashir
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