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Seattle, WA: We learn that police in Seattle needed to set up a ticketing lot for a speed trap they had set up. Guess what kind of lot they chose? If you guessed it would be the parking lot of a doughnut shop you were right. At least 50 city officers were joined by state troopers who spent the day operating out of a Krispy Kreme shop parking lot. We learn further that the boys in blue handed out 120 tickets in one day.
On June 24, 2011, New York became the latest state to legalize same-sex marriage. When clerks across the Big Apple and Hudson River valley begin issuing marriage licenses on July 24, New York will join Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont as states recognizing marriage as a civil liberty that must be granted equally to gay and straight couples alike. Same-sex couples can also find their wedded bliss in Washington, D.C. and on the sovereign land of the Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon.
According to "YellowPagesGoesGreen.org, "companies that print yellow pages had more than 19,000,000 trees destroyed" and "are wasting 7,200,000 barrels of fossil fuel."
But despite those concerns as well as falling ad revenues and growing consumer and government resistance, Yellow Pages directories surprisingly hang on like primordial insects with over a half million unsolicited books still being delivered each year in the U.S.
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