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Cash mobs are spreading

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 10:34am

AKRON, Ohio -- An international movement to support local businesses with a spurt of sales called a "Cash Mob" started in Cleveland last fall and is spreading.

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Another change order appproved for Davis County courthouse campus renovation

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 7:47pm

FARMINGTON — The Davis County Commission members barely winced when they approved a $43,099 change order on Davis County’s $22.5 million Memorial Courthouse campus renovation.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the top national park in the U.S. for visitor spending. In 2010 the park's 9 million visitors spent more than $818 million in neighboring communities

Study: National parks boost local economies by $12 billion

Morgan Simmons The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 3:02pm

A new study by Michigan State University shows that Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the top national park in the U.S. for visitor spending.

The "Economic Benefits to Local Communities from National Park Visitation and Payroll" estimates that in 2010 the park's 9 million visitors spent more than $818 million in neighboring communities -- double the $415 million generated by Grand Canyon National Park, the second-ranked park in the study.

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Bountiful man returns to council after spending more than other candidates

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 1:13am

BOUNTIFUL -- A former city councilman's successful bid to regain a seat he lost four years ago proved to be the most costly in the race, financial disclosures show.

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(CHARLES DHARAPAK/The Associated Press) President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, before signing an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government, Standing, from left are: Budget Director Jack Lew; Social Security Administration Deputy Commissioner Carolyn Colvin; Vice President Joe Biden; Housing and Urban Development Acting Deputy Secretary Estelle Richman; Celeste Steele from the Department of Homeland Security; Jeff Zients, Federal Chief Performance Officer; Danny Werfel, Controller, Budget Office of Federal Financial Management; NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver; Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin; Deputy Director of Office of Management and Budget Heather Higginbottom.

House-Senate negotiators unveil spending bill

Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 8:43am

WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a bundle of spending measures for the ongoing budget year, blending cuts to NASA and community development programs while averting cuts to nutrition programs.

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The F-22 Raptor test team, with director Lt. Col. John Teichert at front, poses in front of one of the planes in Palmedale, California, in 2009. (Kevin Robertson/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

High costs, malfunctions plague F-22 Raptor fighter jets

W.J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 9:36am

It's the most expensive fighter jet ever built. Yet the F-22 Raptor has never seen a day of combat, and its future is clouded by a government safety investigation that has grounded the jet for months.

The fleet of 158 F-22s has been sidelined since May 3, following more than a dozen incidents in which oxygen was cut off to pilots, making them woozy. The malfunction is suspected of contributing to at least one fatal accident.

At an estimated cost of $412 million each, the F-22s amount to about $65 billion sitting on the tarmac. The grounding is the latest dark chapter for an aircraft plagued by problems, and whose need was called into question even before its first test flight.

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