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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 At Grocery Auction, The Food Is Antique MILLVILLE, Penn. -- On a recent Friday in March in this hilly Pennsylvania town, a crowd of 80 locals gathered at Colonel Kirk's Auction Gallery. Farmers, factory workers, retirees, restaurateurs and the odd hoarder filtered in for the seven-hour-long show. Like any auction house, Kirk's aims to please, with boisterous auctioneers and blowout deals. But at this auction, the items for sale were more Costco than Christie's. Carpooling In A Facebook World Is Still Kind Of A Pain Why You Don't Own A Car Don't Miss This Hot Deal Students Receive Accidental Cash Windfalls Allegiant Air To Charge For Overhead Bin Space BLOG POSTS Paul Stoller: Professing Hard Work College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly overpaid. Let me demonstrate why this is dangerously out of touch. Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.: Resurrecting the Cause for Which King Died The very week he died, MLK was in the process of planning the Poor People's Campaign to go to Washington, D.C. to document that poor people in this nation are citizens just like everybody. Saru Jayaraman: The Truth About $2.13 The one irrefutable fact which restaurant lobbyists seem intent on ignoring is that in the eight states, including California, which do not have tipped penalties on restaurant workers, the restaurant industry is thriving. Richard Barrington: Road Rage: The Truth About Gasoline Prices While the backlash is inevitable, it raises a key question: How much control does the president really have over oil and gasoline prices? How people perceive the answer to that question could well decide the results of the next election. Chuck Collins: The 99 Percent Spring and Extreme Inequality The "99 to 1" dichotomy may strike some folks as polarizing and inaccurate. Yet it's a powerful lens for understanding what's happened to our society and economy over the last several decades.

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