1 billion

That's how much more Americans are paying for gasoline at the pump than we did five years ago.

A gallon of regular gasoline now costs $4.108, a tenth of a penny more than the
previous day's high, according to AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and

Happy 4th! The Constitution of the United States of America to return after Jan 20, 2009.

NYTimes.com
Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records

By MIGUEL HELFT

From an Andy Sher piece on the AT&T cable rollout:

Gov. Bredesen spoke about the state budget today. You can read the prepared text here (PDF file).

According to the National Priorities Project, the Iraq War has cost the State of Tennessee over $8 billion ($1 billion = $1000 million). President Bush's new funding request for 08-09 will cost the Volunteer State over $2 billion, which according to NPP would buy Tennessee 21,714 afforable housing units, 41,906 elementary school teachers, or health care coverage for 435,808 adults.

From Beantown’s paper:

Matt Pulle puts his well sought after stamp of journalistic approval on Ann Paine’s piece about Bechtel’s contract with TVA:

Today's Tennessean was full of good stories and none better than Anne Paine's piece about how TVA awarded a contract to a company called Bechtel that basically hatched the idea for its own project.

Today's Tennessean was full of good stories and none better than Anne Paine's piece about how TVA awarded a contract to a company called Bechtel that basically hatched the idea for its own project.

Blockbuster offers $1 billion for Circuit City

Blockbuster says the offer is intended to "capitalize on the growing convergence of media content and electronic devices."