Happy Friday afternoon, York! Here's the news that you may have missed this week.
Sellers react to E-bay rule changes.
Restaurant goes smoke free early.
Businesses take steps to reduce energy costs.
Russia, Georgia situation still tense.
And of course you don't want to miss this week's edition of Money Talk. Check it out below.
This is the kind of story that rules the "most viewed" portion of the Daily Record site for weeks when it happens around here, so I figured I'd share it.
Apparently drug dealers are charging more for their weed.
So one Texas man allegedly decided to start growing his own, just like a lot of York County is apparently growing its own tomatoes and string beans and whatnot because they've gone up in price.
And since the entire country now knows about it, you can guess how the alleged farming operation ended.
Traffic is back. That's something I'm hearing from travelers returning from weekend trips. My wife and I went to go to Baltimore Sunday, and we saw the same thing.
Not like we or anyone else on the roads should be surprised. After all, three of the four members of our biz staff (everyone I talked to so far this morning) said they were traveling long distances recently.
It's almost like people have been waiting to drive here, there and everywhere until gas prices improved, then did it all with the $3.42-ish-for-regular weekend we just had.
So what do you think? Is this where people stop saying "ouch" at the pumps and start getting back to business as usual?
Also, while you're thinking about that, take a look at one of our stories last week about a local share-a-ride service expecting their best month ever this August, despite the month's slow drop in gas prices.
With just a few hours until the weekend, it's time for your dose of business news.
Gas still too high; people want to share rides.
Local businesspeople get their groove on.
Green-collar jobs on the rise.
And for the latest from your biz staff, check out this week's podcast for a look at the real estate landscape and what first-time homebuyers need to know.
Growing up and getting my license when gas was 89 cents a gallon - just 10 years ago, mind you - my parents had their version of the "we walked uphill both ways to school" story.
It was called the 1970s, when gasoline was rationed and long lines existed at stations just to fuel up. Battlefields in the Middle East were hot, and America backed the little guy called Israel, and it wasn't the country with the oil.
It is the No. 1 reason I do not cook as often as I would like.
Spoiled produce. It only takes one unplanned late night at work or other schedule speed bump to throw off my well-laid plans of cooking for a week. And when the plans go awry, the ingredients spoil, so I just give up all hope of cooking the next week because I don't want the food to just go to waste again.
Thankfully, the article offers some tips, especially important as more of us (myself included) try to cook more to save money.
Does anyone else have this problem? Or was this story written just for me?
