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    <pubDate>2009-11-21</pubDate>
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      <title>All-electric sedan here Jan. 4</title>
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      <description>The plug-in, all-electric Nissan Leaf will make its first public appearance in Tucson Jan. 4, said Colleen Crowninshield, Clean Cities program manager at Pima Association of Governments. </description>
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      <title>SW Gas customers get money back from overbilling</title>
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      <description>The Arizona Corporation Commission approved a credit Friday for Southwest Gas Corp. customers to correct an overage the company collected on bills. </description>
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      <title>Insurance rates are squeezing small biz</title>
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      <description>Faced with high health insurance costs, a North Carolina brokerage passed the buck to its employees, a Texas public-relations firm switched from group insurance to stipends, and a Missouri travel agency let its workers walk away instead of paying for insurance. </description>
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      <title>TEP gives out $100K in grants</title>
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      <description>Tucson Electric Power Co. presented $100,000 in grants on Thursday to 14 non-profit groups. </description>
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      <title>Sunstone Cancer centers closing</title>
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      <description>Sunstone Cancer Support Centers will be dissolved, its board of directors announced Friday. </description>
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      <title>Goddard tells Health Net to divulge breach</title>
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      <description>The attorney general wants Health Net to notify Arizona policyholders of a major data breach.  </description>
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      <title>Punk band, Star in settlement over use of Hite slaying photo</title>
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      <description>The Arizona Daily Star has reached a settlement with a local punk-rock group that used a photograph of slain Officer Erik Hite on its album cover. </description>
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      <title>Half-ton of pot in vehicle lands 2 men in custody</title>
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      <description>Two men were arrested after authorities found more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana in their vehicle. </description>
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      <pubDate>2009-11-21</pubDate>
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      <title>Business briefs</title>
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      <description>  East Valley Tribune reports buyer's offer 
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      <pubDate>2009-11-21</pubDate>
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      <title>Saturday Reader: People behind technology we can't live without</title>
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      <description>Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate. So why not throw in a few books about the people and services causing the delight and disruption? A few suggestions: </description>
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      <title>Housing: FHA may tighten homebuyer requirements</title>
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      <description>WASHINGTON For the past several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can't come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3 percent market share to nearly 30 percent of home purchase loans. But now, wildly popular FHA-insured mortgages could be on the verge of becoming more expensive and tougher to obtain.</description>
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