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By Mike O’Sullivan
Junction City, California
Firefighters in California are making progress against 30 major wildfires still burning around the state. Since the end of June, crews have contained more than 2,000 blazes in what officials have called the biggest fire episode in California’s history. Mike O’Sullivan reports from Junction City, California, the effort is the first [...]

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By Ted Landphair
Washington, DC
At the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting last month, the mayor of Albuquerque, N.M., asked a provocative question: How would his citizens feel if the city bought thousands of ordinary writing pens – the kind that cost about $1 each in most stores – and paid $1,000 apiece for them? Or [...]

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