Soaring gas prices make CTA bailout more urgent, Daley says

Skyrocketing gasoline prices add even more urgency to the CTA'srequest for a $55 million state bailout to avert the need to raisefares for cash-paying customers and scale back systemwide CTA serviceto a Sunday schedule, Mayor Daley said Thursday.

"Gas prices are going up, and they're going to keep going upbecause Congress is not going to do anything about it. ... You canblame Democrats. You can blame Republicans. You can blame everyone.But the prices are going to go up. When the prices go up, what'sgoing to happen to people in the metropolitan area?" the mayor said.

"The CTA transports ... more than Metra and Pace combination. Theyaffect not only the city but the …

Delivering Materiel Readiness To the Army

The Army G-4 exists to deliver materiel readiness to our soldiers, a task that has remained the same for years. Today's operating environment has changed; we are an Army at war ... relevant and ready. Our most critical task is to sustain the combat readiness of our deployed force and to maintain the operational readiness of the current force. The current force provides the war-fighting readiness that serves our nation, and it must adapt to a changing enemy and fight and win decisively against any threat.

Our fundamental challenge within G-4 is to enhance our current capabilities while transforming Army logistics for tomorrow. We will address known shortfalls in our current …

Lightning-Maple Leafs Sums

Tampa Bay 2 1 0_3
Toronto 1 1 0_2
First Period_1, Tampa Bay, Jokinen 1 (Recchi, Lundin), 5:08. 2, Toronto, Stajan 1 (Antropov, Ponikarovsky), 7:34 (pp). 3, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 4 (Prospal, M.Smith), 15:37. Penalties_Finger, Tor (holding), :58	Van Ryn, Tor (delay of game), 1:24	Krajicek, TB (interference), 6:57	Prospal, TB (holding), 8:17	Ranger, TB (hooking), 10:10	Gratton, TB (delay of game), 10:59.
Second Period_4, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 5 (Prospal, Stamkos), 4:08 (pp). 5, Toronto, Van Ryn 2 (Grabovski, …

Save first, spend later ; The next decade will belong to those who expect the best but plan for the worst

The slow one now, Will later be fast, As the present now, Willlater be pastThe order is Rapidly fadin', And the first one now,Will later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'These immortallyrics from Bob Dylan may as well be a prophecy for the comingdecade in terms of personal finance. The times are changing and weneed to be ready. What all should you do with your personal financein the 2012-22 period is the theme of my column. Let us take a quicklook at the trends in personal finance in India

-- Domestic savings rate estimated as a ratio of GDP is estimatedat 34 per cent and investment rate at 37 per cent for 2011/12.

-- GDP growth is expected to be …

McDonald, Ducks 1 Win From Stanley Cup

OTTAWA - Andy McDonald bailed out Chris Pronger and set up Southern California for a playoff party like never before. The Anaheim Ducks are within a win of their first Stanley Cup championship. McDonald scored two goals in the second period, then shook free of hard-hitting Chris Neil and assisted on Dustin Penner's winner in the third, giving Anaheim a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Monday night.

The Ducks will carry a 3-1 series advantage back home to Anaheim, where they are 7-0 in clinching games, including 3-0 this year. But this one is different, and it all became possible because of the Ducks' first road win in the finals in six chances over two series.

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Fed says economy needs $600B bond-purchase program

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the U.S. economy isn't growing fast enough to bring relief to millions of unemployed Americans and must press ahead with its $600 billion Treasury bond-purchase program.

Ending its first meeting of the year, the Fed made no changes Wednesday to the program. The decision was unanimous. It came from a new lineup of voting members that includes two …

DFB complains as tax raid details made public

MUNICH (AP) — The German football federation has started legal proceedings after details of a tax investigation were made public.

The DFB said Friday it filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office in Munich following a raid by tax investigators at its headquarters in Frankfurt on Monday.

The federation said that details of the raid "clearly entered the public domain in advance. This founds the suspicion that public officials wrongfully divulged confidential company information to outside parties."

It added that "further legal proceedings will follow in …