Bicycle love

ByAbby Quillen

May is National Bike Month! Oh bikes, how I love thee. Let me count the reasons….. 10.  Bikes are quiet. You’ll never get woken up at midnight, because your teenage neighbor’s revving his bike engine. And imagine if they replaced that freeway next to your house with a seven-lane bike path. 9.  You can cart…

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Business is Booming: 5 Rays of Recession-Era Hope

ByAbby Quillen

These are just a few of the headlines that blared off Google’s News feed last week: “World economy to shrink by 1-2 percent in 2009” “Unemployment rises in 99.7 percent of metro areas” “Rescuing the Economy Just Got Harder”. Pass the St. John’s wort, please. It’s hard not to despair about the state of the…