Good morning, Houston. Did you read the Chronicle over breakfast this morning? We're sure the paper is thanking you: According to the Newspaper Association of America, the Chron lost 2 percent of its circulation in the six-month period ending in March. That's really not so bad compared with drops among some of the other biggest papers in the country: 3.5 percent for The Washington Post, 4.2 percent for the LA Times and a whopping...
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So here's a numismatic question: Does anyone ever use Sacagawea dollars, the golden $1 coins the U.S. Mint started churning out in 2000? More than a billion of them are in circulation, but Houstonist never gets one in change. It makes us wonder just how well the Mint's latest foray into dollar coins, the presidential dollar, is going to work out. But we'll know pretty soon: The first presidential dollar, featuring the mug of George...
The U.S. Mint has announced that it now cost 1.2 cents to make a penny. The first time the price exceeded the penny’s value. So why keep making them? Sentimental reasons mostly, it seems.
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