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Quest for faster Internet dogs telecom vet turned Park Cities 'barkery' owner
2015-01-20 05:22:13| Telecom - Topix.net
Marsha Lindsey uses Instagram to promote her Lucky Dog Barkery in the Plaza at Preston Center. As former president of SBC Southwestern Bell of Oklahoma, she was already boned up on the details of Internet access.
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Pittsburgh ranks No. 9 on list of best cities for car lovers
2015-01-18 05:44:30| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Jim McHugh of North Versailles tries his hand at driving a remote control racing car Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The Steel City has been named one of the 10-best cities for car lovers by the Movoto Real Estate blog.
U.S. cities lag behind others in the world in meeting the challenge of sea-level rise
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In December, residents in Marin, a county in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area nestled across from the Golden Gate Bridge, woke up to find that some of their roadways, docks and parking lots were underwater. Unlike in past years, when the king tides -- unusually high tides that occur when the sun and moon are closer to the Earth -- were accompanied by stormy weather, residents this year were faced with just some minor flooding. But more and more, parts of California are seeing...
Solar a Better Investment Than Stocks in Most Large U.S. Cities, Study Says
2015-01-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: For homeowners in 46 of the 50 largest cities in the U.S., investing in a residential solar power system would yield better returns than putting money in the stock market, according to an analysis by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University. For 21 million owners of single-family homes in the U.S., solar energy already costs less than current local utility rates, the report says, as long as the system can be purchased with low-cost financing of 5 percent...
Cities cheer Obama's push for municipal broadband
2015-01-16 16:55:10| Telecom - Topix.net
Dozens of U.S. cities are cheering President Obama's proposal this week for the Federal Communications Commission to allow municipalities to provide their own Internet broadband services even in states that have banned such services. "Obama's doing just what we have been advocating," said Rick Usher, assistant city manager for Kansas City, Mo., in an interview.
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