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WOTS on Oliver’s severance pay

If you’re still trying to figure out how Randy Oliver could quit voluntarily and still get a sweet severance package, well so is John Sharp in today’s Word on the Street column. It appears there’s nothing in his contract that would require the city to give him severance unless he were either directly or indirectly [...]

Lots of money to be spent by District 150

This is old news, but I just wanted to give everyone a chance to comment on it: District 150, it was reported last Friday in the paper, is going to spend $94 million in new buildings and renovations. Here’s how it breaks down:

Harrison Primary
$21.2 M

Lincoln Middle
$19.7 M

Glen Oak
$27.9 M

Richwoods Attendance Area
[...]

Oil imports pop quiz

Can you name the top countries from which the U.S. imports crude oil? Here’s the answer from the Energy Information Administration’s website, along with the average number of barrels that were imported per day in Nov 2007 (in thousands):

Canada (1,919)
Saudi Arabia (1,530)
Mexico (1,484)
Venezuela (1,227)
Nigeria (1,215)
Iraq (508)
Angola (408)
Colombia (197)
Algeria (184)
Ecuador (154)
Kuwait (154)
Chad (107)
Argentina (86)
Russia (81)
Brazil (78)

It’s [...]