Fox Business Network starts Oct 15

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Wednesday July 11, 2007 · 6:13 PM PDT

2007/07/11 · 18:13

Here are some highlights from the announcement:

Neil Cavuto leads coverage and appears on air.
Editorial slant will be more "business friendly" than CNBC. (And we all know what a fearless muckraker that Maria Bartiromo is.)
DirecTV (34% owned by News Corp.) will carry the channel at launch, along with Comcast, Time Warner and Charter, 3 of the top 4 cable operators. It would be interesting to know the terms. Murdoch secured widespread carriage of Fox News by paying cable operators $10 a head, right up front.

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Fox Business Network will:

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Fox Business Network will:

Blow CNBC out of the water, Journal or no Journal

8 votes

Blow CNBC out of the water, but only if Rupert snaps up Dow Jones

3 votes

Weaken Fox News by cannibalizing it

4 votes

Lose beaucoups but be kept on anyway, a la New York Post

9 votes

Make Jim Cramer look like the sane one

22 votes

Other

3 votes

Share your experience with CF lights (+ poll)

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Wednesday January 03, 2007 · 8:37 AM PST

2007/01/03 · 08:37

There's a push on, privately and publicly, to persuade Americans to replace at least one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light (CFL) fixture. For starters. But that task isn't always easy. For one thing, there doesn't seem to be a clearinghouse of practical information as to which brands and types deliver the best benefit at the lowest cost.

So hey, let's make one!

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Of all the light sockets in my residence, I currently have CFLs in:

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Of all the light sockets in my residence, I currently have CFLs in:

None

9 votes

Fewer than 10%

11 votes

10-25%

26 votes

25-50%

11 votes

50-75%

22 votes

More than 75%

40 votes

Never - I can't afford CFLs

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Why we need a passenger-train network: Denver edition

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 9:18 AM PST

2006/12/22 · 09:18

Nearly all the news media have framed Denver as a place you can't get into or out of. With a few exceptions like this Indianapolis station.

But lookit, Amtrak's running out of Denver.

Now is the California Zephyr running late? Of course. Is it crowded? Likely. Might it run out of food en route? Sure; provisioning is more art than science anyway, and abnormal circumstances throw everything out the window. But it's warm and it's moving.

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My last intercity train trip was

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My last intercity train trip was

Less than a month ago

12 votes

Less than 6 months ago

10 votes

Less than 2 years ago

20 votes

None yet

15 votes

Train trip? I thought Amtrak was out of business.

4 votes

2007: The Year of Living Below One's Means

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Thursday December 21, 2006 · 12:16 PM PST

2006/12/21 · 12:16

Several thoughtful comments here suggested that personal economy would make a good diary topic. So here goes.

In 2005 I got a handle on living within my means. For 2006 my big New Year's resolution was to move beyond that and start living well below my means: cutting month-to-month expenses and accelerating my savings program. 12 months later, it strikes me as an even better resolution for 2007. To start things off, here are a few steps I took over the last 12 months:

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How would you describe your finances?

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How would you describe your finances?

Well below my means

20 votes

Somewhat below my means

41 votes

Within my means

43 votes

Somewhat overextended

45 votes

Help!

13 votes

Cabinet's lone Dem, Norman Y. Mineta, resigns from DOT.

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Friday June 23, 2006 · 9:05 AM PDT

2006/06/23 · 09:05

Secretary Mineta's resignation letter appears on DOT's website as a PDF. Excerpt:

There is much talk these days about a lack of civility in our political discourse and of deep ideological and partisan divisions at every level of government, most especially here in Washington, D.C. There is enough evidence to suggest that such talk and the concerns that it reflects are not without merit. But . . . [o]ver the past five and a half years, I would like to think that you and I have demonstrated, even in a small way, that different political affiliations do not have to translate into opposing views on the value of public policy issues or the nobility of public service.

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