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Piazza Duomo
Three photos of the Piazza Duomo. You can see how close the Duomo and Galleria are to each other.
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All-out?
So the House passed a bill last month to ban online poker playing. Jon Stewart describes this best: When it comes to physical casinos, the argument is that the poor locals will wander in and spend their every last dollar. I don’t see the same argument working for online gambling, as the poor are unlikely…
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Forget FEMA, rely on Wal-Mart & Home Depot in a disaster
Steven Horwitz, a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, published a study that shows why local businesses are more effective in assisting in an emergency than the federal government. The study says Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowe’s made use of their local knowledge about supply chains, infrastructure, decision makers and other resources to provide…
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The crime line
Jeez… and all this time I thought it was a myth that Amherst didn’t want the MetroRail extended to it’s town because it would bring the crime to it from the city. Turns out, that’s actually a fact in places like “idyllic” Portland. When TriMet opened the light-rail line in 1986, it eliminated its transit…
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Looking up
Two more quickies from the top of the Duomo:
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Cardavenue: Gift Card Exchange
I ran across Cardavenue while reading an article in Money magazine and loved the idea – a website where you can go and post gift cards that you have acquired that you don’t want or need, and try to trade them for other merchants that you might rather have instead. I got a couple Buca…