Hot off the Press: Now with comments edition

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-real-estate2-2009apr02,0,3496436.story
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/02/business/economy/economy-user-photos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/garden/02depression.html?ref=us
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02library.html?ref=us
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02everglades.html?ref=us
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/the-orphans-of-ireland/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/travel/29culture.html?ref=books
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/opinion/03brooks.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/politics/04disclose.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/politics/04farm.html?hp
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090404/NEWS01/90404003/1079
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05mall.html?_r=1&ref=us

That's an interesting article because it includes this mindblowing tidbit:

“There was really no relationship between development and the increase in consumer spending,” said Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an advocacy group.

Between 1990 and 2005, consumer spending per capita rose 14 percent, adjusted for inflation, yet retail space per capita in the United States doubled, said Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an advocacy group.

In her view, that created too much store space even for a good economy, and then retailers were hit by the recession. “All of this overdevelopment has pulled the rug out from under them,” she said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-nytimes-globe,0,273818.story
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090405/BUSINESS/904050331
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,617005,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/us/06wanted.html?ref=us
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/a-coffin-a-flag-a-photograph/?ref=us
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/06/bottled-water.html

This seems like an insanely bad idea: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-plant-emissions7-2009apr07,0,4993574.story

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oilvote7-2009apr07,0,1280817.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jrdorms7-2009apr07,0,5938473.story

A smaller, uglier version of the SmartCar from the makers of shit...GM!: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/gm-conjures-up-a-people-moving-pod/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/07horses.html?_r=1&ref=us

Explain this to me: why are we told to honor and respect veterans when the government and military don't give a shit about them?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07brfs-PATIENTTESTS_BRF.html?ref=us

Oh, the things you find at Goodwill: http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090331/NEWS01/90331006/0/PluckForumcomments_count.php

http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090407/NEWS01/904070325/1079/news01