California Supreme Court Upholds State’s Prop 8 Decision

Proposition 8 remains in effect
The California Supreme Court has made a much-anticipated ruling on the rights of individuals to marry. Their decision was to uphold the state’s previous Prop 8 decision to ban gay marriage.
John Schwartz reports for the New York Times that the California Supreme Court decision on Prop [...]

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 by
Steven Tarlow

The Worse the Economy, the Better the Barter

When you can’t pay with cash
A few weeks ago, I was trying to find a way to take a short vacation I’d planned more than a year before. The problem was that I’d been unemployed for most of that year and had just started back to work. I [...]

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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 by
Sue McCormick