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Friday, July 10, 2009

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City & Region

Rod Watson: Alternative to gang life is about pride

While community groups toil in the streets to reclaim young adults from the guns, drugs and death of Buffalo’s gang life, the larger question is how to make such work less necessary.

Sports

Timberwolves' Kahn trusts Flynn can get it done

In the late 1980s, David Kahn and I were among a half-dozen "national NBA columnists." He worked in Portland. I was in New York City.

Business

Singletary: Parental control on credit cards

Parents should be particularly elated about one section of the recently adopted credit card law that could keep young people out of debt. The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act prohibits credit card issuers from extending credit to a person under 21 unless one of two conditions is met.

Life

Hax: Manipulative mom alienates siblings

Dear Carolyn: Our 60-year-old mom has five grown children, 22 to 39. Two of us have recently discovered that she has been gossiping, telling stories out of context, spinning the truth, spreading rumors and sometimes telling outright lies about each of us to the others.