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Letters to the Editor 7/30Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:53PMI continue to be amazed at the fuss over climate change. Is our climate changing? Of course! We were previously in an ice age, and we are now nearing the end of a interglacial cycle. You remember about the ice ages. You know, the wooly mammoths, the saber-toothed tigers and all that.

Journalism matters - no matter the mediumFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:24PM"The overarching purpose of access to information legislation is to facilitate democracy. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry."

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Japan: Land of the Rising DebtFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:22PMInvestors are scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. However, they are ignoring a more likely and significantly larger debt catastrophe that is about to hit the second-largest economy in the world -- Japan.

Is Coinstar a Buy?Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 3:21PMUnexpectedly slow sales outweigh good earnings today

Japan: Land of the Rising DebtFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:56PMBy Vitaliy Katsenelson. Investors are understandably scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. Amid their angst, however, they are ignoring a more likely, and significantly larger, debt catastrophe that is about to hit the nation with the second-largest economy in the world - Japan. Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted ...