Lower gas prices mean higher travel numbers this weekend

Source: Pittsburgh Entertainment

Marilyn Forbes Daily Courier Published: Friday, May 25, 2012, 10:10 p.m. Updated 21 minutes ago There are currently no comments for this story. Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to summer. Many Americans wi ...
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Boxer fighting for rental car safety

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

SANTA CRUZ - Sen. Barbara Boxer is fighting to close the regulatory loophole that allowed Enterprise Rent-A-Car to let Raechel and Jacqueline Houck of Santa Cruz drive away in 2004 in a recalled PT Cruiser with a safety defect that crashed ...
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Car Safety System Gets Real-World Test - PostChronicle.com

Source: The Post Chronicle

A $22 million safety research project will equip motor vehicles with connected technologies, devices that may someday prevent crashes, U.S. researchers say. The University of Michigan's Transportation Research ...
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Around the Region for May 24, 2012.

Source: Gainesville Sun

School bus driver cited in traffic crash An Alachua County school bus collided Tuesday afternoon with a sport utility vehicle. A Chevy Suburban, driven by Ada Pelt, 51, was going east on Archer Road and stop ...
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Car safety focus turns to pedestrians

Source: The Age

With airbags now covering every nook and cranny inside the car, the focus is turning protecting other road users. Cars are becoming kinder to other road users. The latest BMW 3-Series has been commended ...
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Our take: Make Florida safer

Source: Orlando Sentinel

The financial toll is bad enough: According to a report released this week and spotlighted in Wednesday's Sentinel, deaths from preventable injuries cost Florida $118 million a year in medical expenses. But the emotional toll ...
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Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy

Source: Cleveland.com

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring. In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, the Republican pre ...
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The Organic Foods Scam

Source: John Goodman Health Policy Blog

Byron Caplan wants to know why the organic foods market is growing by leaps and bounds even though it charges a 30% to 50% price premium and there is no evidence that it does any good: Major literature revi ...
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Drivers license checkpoint scheduled for Friday

Source: Gainesville Sun

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office will set up a driver’s license checkpoint at 7300 SW Eighth Ave. on Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. In addition to promoting safety to residents, checkpoints are a visible way to deter lawbreaker ...
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