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Golden Gate Fields comes to a close as California racing struggles to exist
LA Times via AOL· 6 days agoAfter 83 years, Sunday is the last day of racing at Golden Gate Fields. The track will be missed for...
Shribman: Two candidates, mired in the past
The Salem News· 5 days agoIt wasn’t always this way in the United States. In 1828, Andrew Jackson ran for the White House ...
A work ethic that just won’t quit | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 6 days agoMost of us work, and from my experience after living for two years in the so-called Third World and...
Basketball icon, Hall of Fame legend Jerry West passes away at 86
NCAA· 2 days agoThe day everyone in West Virginia has always dreaded has finally arrived. Jerry West, the greatest...
US market expert warns of 'a bigger crash' than 2008 — says there's 'nowhere to hide' except in this...
Moneywise via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoDepression, or the long depression of 1873 to ’96 — those followed major bubbles. And the other one...
Americans tired of sky-high borrowing costs could be disappointed this week
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoHow a Depression-era law could be used to make your booze cheaper Federal regulators are planning to...
Cyril Walker, sad story of a Us Open champ
Tennis World· 21 minutes agoCyril Walker, a British professional golfer born in Manchester in 1892, found significant success in the ...
How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThis story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s...
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought...
The Conversation· 3 days agoThe publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the ...
Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
WUSF 89.7· 6 days agoMost plastic is dumped in landfills or becomes pollution in places like rivers and oceans, according...