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  • As the auto industry goes electric, there have been so many massive battery projects announced that it can be hard to keep track of them all. So we added them up for you.
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, states could offer free meals to every public school student every school day. That program ended, but some states, like Vermont, are looking to keep it on their own.
  • Estero Village’s staff and consultants will be busy the rest of the summer finishing plans for an entertainment center off Via Coconut Way and Williams Road.The Village council gave the staff the go ahead last week at its final meeting before the summer hiatus to negotiate agreements with Chicken N Pickle, of North Kansas City, Missouri, and High 5 Entertainment, of Austin, Texas, to provide entertainment facilities on 10 acres of the 20-acre site.
  • Hall of Famer Goose Gossage tore into the MLB and some of its biggest players in a recent interview. Tennis player Maria Sharapova is awaiting her punishment after testing positive for Meldonium.
  • Gubernatorial races in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi are heating up. It could be a chance for Democrats to get a foothold in these states with Republican supermajorities.
  • You don't have to have big bucks to join the latest trend in philanthropy. Soup groups around the country let diners pool their money to support deserving local initiatives. In Philadelphia, one dinner raised $225 for a teacher's class project.
  • Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has outlined plans to increase consumer lending and remove toxic assets from banks' balance sheets. But analysts said they were disappointed by the lack of details in the plan. The much-anticipated speech left out how much the plan would cost.
  • President Barack Obama's home mortgage relief program is even bigger than the administration had been suggesting. The cost is $75 billion. The plan aims to prevent as many as 9 million homeowners from being evicted and to stabilize housing markets.
  • Longer Black Friday sale windows give companies more chances to win potential business, but it also affords consumers the ability to shop around, experts say.
  • India's newest boom town is Hyderabad, a hub for multinational high tech and pharmaceutical companies. But Hyderabad is also known for its enormous, prehistoric granite boulders, which are being jeopardized by economic development.
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