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June 25, 2008: Headlines

A week of weakonomics

Posted Wed, Jun 25, 9 a.m.

If you look away from the Sonics trial for a moment, you can see warning signs that the seemingly immune local economy is actually pretty precarious.

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Music festival alert: Vancouver, B.C., is the place for jazz

Posted Wed, Jun 25, midnight

One of the world's premier music festivals is going on to the north of us, and lovers of live music ought to sit up and take notice.

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Transit train wreck: Here's how to do buses right

Posted Wed, Jun 25, midnight

They aren't the only solution, but they are the most flexible and potentially most attractive solution if they are used well. Bus lines are flexible, scalable, and can touch more people than rail, and they don't have to be a pain to use. Part 3 of 3

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The 'uncivilized' interview

Posted Wed, Jun 25, midnight

The art of the Q&A; is tricky, and TV pundits have often turned it into a public form of waterboarding. Bill O'Reilly runs his own little Guantanamo on Fox. NBC's Tim Russert, however, understood that intelligence could be gathered more humanely.

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