Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | May 16, 2012

  The Nanny State Environmental Police strikes again. A popular ice cream stand in Massachusetts, run for 26 years by longtime dairy farmer Mark Duffy, has been shut down because Duffy dared to make improvements without paying for government permits. Duffy is astounded, saying he has done countless repairs and improvements on the stand and [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 13, 2012

  Seattle joins Portland with less-frequent trash pickup. While officials say this will cut down on the amount of home garbage filling landfills, the twice-monthly solid waste garbage collection pilot program appears to be more an effort to cut city costs. It’s anticipated that Seattle could save about $6 million a year with bi-monthly garbage [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 9, 2012

There has been quite a bit of discussion and speculation this week about dinosaurs contributing to ancient global warming through their farting, based on a new British scientific paper that posits that dinosaurs had such massive flatulence and burps that they may have contributed to climate change, aka global warming. And perhaps they even hastened [...]

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