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With unemployment through the roof in Rhode Island, it makes no sense for Providence to threaten companies that employ thousands of people and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy. Yet that, incredibly, seems to be what the city is doing, in identifying blue-collar businesses in the working port area along Allens Avenue as potential targets for eminent-domain seizures, apparently for the benefit of developers of waterfront property. The developments, with their service-sector jobs such as maids and waiters, are unlikely to pay anywhere near as well as working-port jobs.

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COLORADO SPRINGS One could be forgiven a little nostalgia for the 1950s and ’60s, when elementary-school students solemnly crawled under their desks in preparation for the impending mutually assured destruction of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. For the journalists here attending a Heritage Foundation conference last week on weapons of mass destruction, they seemed like the good old days.

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