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An upside to Hurricane Sandy? November auto sales soar

Source: Mother Nature Network, Dec 3 2012, 2:07pm CST

AFTER THE FLOOD: Hurricane Sandy left scenes like this all over the Northeast. (Flickr/CasualCapture) November car sales are coming in, and it’s lookin’ good—almost all brands are up, volume has increased 14 percent (122,565 vehic ...

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New NYC evacuation maps learn from lessons of Sandy

Source: United Press International  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:12am CDT

NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- New York city officials say they have doubled the number of storm evacuation zones in a plan to better respond to lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy . The six new zones replace the long-standing A, B and C zones, ...

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"Carmakers blamed Sandy, the huge storm that lashed the densely populated East Coast and caused up to $50 billion in damage, for the abrupt halt in sales last month."


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Governor Malloy: Utilities ready for 2013 hurricane season

Source: New Haven Register  |   Jun 18 2013, 6:58pm CDT

HARTFORD >> Gov. Dannel P. Malloy insists that the state’s utilities are ready to handle whatever the 2013 hurricane season dishes out, despite the fact that a Monday night thunderstorm left 21,000 Connecticut ...

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Utilities, Malloy Say State Is Ready For Damaging Weather

Source: Hartford Courant  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:17pm CDT

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy summoned the heads of the state's power and communications companies to Hartford on Tuesday for a closed-door, hour-long meeting on preparations for the next big storm. "We may not get everything right every time, but ...

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CL&P: Prepare Now for Hurricanes

Source: Westport Now  |   Jun 18 2013, 12:08pm CDT

Even though hurricanes typically do not bear down on the state until early fall, Connecticut Light ...

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Occupy Sandy, Once Welcomed, Now Questioned

Source: Humanitarian News  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:51am CDT

An incomplete section of the destroyed Rockaway Beach boardwalk, May 31, 2013. squirrel83/Flickr Nearly eight months after Hurricane Sandy destroyed almost three miles of historic boardwalk along the Rockaway pe ...

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How long can the electric car market survive unprofitability?

Source: Chicago Tribune  |   Jun 17 2013, 12:24pm CDT

The 2013 Honda Fit EV hit the North American market in July, 2012. Recent competitive price drops have caused a surge of demand in California. Honda has no plans to increase production of the fuel-efficient ...

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4 days ago

The C5 Corvette Is Still A Revelation

Source: Jalopnik  |   Jun 14 2013, 5:14pm CDT

Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Autoweek, Road ...

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5 days ago

From Katrina to Sandy, This Is How Urban Revival Gets Done

Source: The Nonprofit Quarterly  |   Jun 13 2013, 3:08pm CDT

For those of us who still claim an allegiance to the nonprofit sector qua nonprofits as opposed to alternative visions of nonprofits as sort of second-rate for-profit wannabes or as arms and outposts of government, Joe Nocera’s op- ...

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New Mona Charen for 06/14/2013

Source: Creators Syndicate  |   Jun 13 2013, 2:51pm CDT

His answer was one word: coal. Fracking provides abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy to Americans while also reducing carbon emissions. America's greenhouse gas emissions have dropped more than any other nation's in the past five years as we've ...

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