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I am happy to be able to go out for dinner or for a drink at my favorite bar and not have to contend with smoke from those with careless attitudes. I live in Madison and have become used to the absence of smoke. One think I do regret, however, is the accumulation of cigarette butts on Madison's new ashtrays, otherwise knows as the sidewalks. .
Federal deficit possible, study says
We get that. There is no point in coming on and using your usual Rhetoric 101 trick of discrediting the source, the reporter, the paper, and anyone else in the partisan drivel supply chain. The source does that. Posted 14/01/08 at 10:02 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
State in dark on uranium
THERE can be no questioning the resilience of the Queensland Labor Government's administrative prohibition on uranium mining in Queensland. Consider just one challenge the edict has rebounded from during just the past year or so.First, the Queensland Resources Council – representing the state's $18 billion-a-year coal industry – called on then premier Peter Beattie to give the go-ahead to uranium mining, flatly rejecting his contention that uranium mining would threaten coal exports. To his credit, Mr Beattie commissioned an independent report from the University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute to resolve the question. In January 2007, Uranium and the Queensland Coal Industry – Risk and Opportunity was delivered. Among its conclusions: ". . .
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