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Dec 11, 2023

Climate-friendly food is a global issue

Solutions vary region-to-region, but climate change’s affect on food production (and vice versa) is increasingly hard to ignore. Plus, central banks to discuss rate cuts this week.

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This week, central banks will decide what to do (or not do) with interest rates
by Kimberly Adams
Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
The Federal Reserve and others will update monetary policy, balancing inflation with the recession risk. Investors hope for rate cuts.
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This Tulsa sneaker shop is hoping for a last minute-rush
by Sean McHenry
After a slow November, Venita Cooper at Silhouette Sneakers & Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hopes to see plenty of traffic in December. “We did a loyalty program that we started in Q3,” said Cooper. “We’ll see how that does in the heart of our holiday season, which tends to be December. We get a lot of last-minute shoppers.”
What happened to the “magic of Macy’s”?
by Elizabeth Trovall
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Investors are reportedly offering less than $6 billion to buy the once-iconic department store chain.
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When Amazon comes to town, rural post offices struggle to keep up with deliveries
by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio
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When thousands of Amazon packages arrived overnight, it wreaked havoc on a post office in Bemidji, Minnesota.
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This frame shop owner is prepping for a last-minute rush
by Sean McHenry
“I’m spending a lot more hours here at the shop,” said Eric Vaughn, owner of Eric’s I’ve Been Framed in Detroit, Michigan. “I’m preparing for the last-minute rush. It always comes, same time of the year.”
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture has been a COP28 priority
by Savannah Peters
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There’s been more than $3 billion pledged toward making global food systems more resilient in the face of climate change.
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Wyoming is an EV charging desert. Federal money could help, but the state isn’t so sure
by Caitlin Tan
Caitlin Tan/Wyoming Public Media
There’s an electric vehicle charging desert in Wyoming and private businesses are taking matters into their own hands. The state remains hesitant.
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Orders are picking up at this Jackson, Mississippi record store
by Sean McHenry
“People are coming in, they’re buying record players, they’re buying speakers for the record players,” said Phillip Rollins, owner of the record and comic store OffBeat in Jackson, Mississippi. “I’m just hoping to keep that momentum going.”