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The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial institutions to cover the costs of failure by their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the normally secretive Federal Reserve.
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To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster aid to buy back crabbing licenses.
Economists across the region are crunching the numbers, trying to answer the question that's on everyone's mind: when will the economy turn around?
More Horizon: 2009 Outlook Headlines
Gas prices aren't expected to take drivers on the wild ride that they did in 2008, experts predict. They will likely climb and waver in 2009, though it's not clear how high they will go.
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