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Heyday. it garnered the nickname electric city for the streetcars that ran through the center of town, but when the mine dried up, the prosperity dried up as well. scranton saw a resurgence in the 90s, but this day and age this town is struggling. scranton is not having a good time in terms of employment in the sense that our unemployment rate, the last that was published, the data came out of the state is standing around 9.2%. that s in june. which is higher than our state average. our state average is right now somewhere around 7.6, 7.5 last month. nationally, slightly better, 7.4. reporter: and to update the numbers, it even gets a little bit worse jumping almost a full percentage point to 10.2% unemployment in scranton, pennsylvania, and it should be noted this is the hometown of ....
In new york city. they want them sold in container that is are more than 16 ounces. besides restaurants the ban would effect movie theaters streetcars and stadiums. it would not effect vending machines or grocery stores. vie tlierts would face $200 fine. some people say the ban is easily mrouted. people could buy two smaller containers of sugary drinks instead of one large cone taner. others call it a good idea. i think soda is really unhealthy. i don t see any reason to keep the dri drivenlths a lot of people drink soda. they will be buying more. that is even worse. it does not come as a large surprise. the beverage association is not in favor of the plan. a spokesman told us banning the saled of large sugary drinks ....
Other companies with technology and in that space. so it s been a great partnership, and we re only in year one. jon: you know, there are a lot of people who don t want to put ethanol in their regular cars, their driving around on the streetcars because they don t think it has the power, or it s bad for the engine. you re proving, or you re convinced that is not the case? we know it. and that s why they partnered with us, because they knew it as well. if it can withstand the test of 500 miles of the close e competition under extreme circumstances, it ll work everywhere, and it does, and we re proving it every sunday. jon: your viewership peaked not that long ago and had been dipping since then. why do you think nascar is coming back, and can you get back to the levels of interest you had just a few years ago? i think we can. we ve had, generally, a growth year and, as you said, it s ratings. television ratings. some attendance issues going in the right way. but, look, we re still ....
Ignore it or think that it has no effect. but if you look at the research it clearly does and children copy that aggression. reporter: as he s grown older mickey mouse has slowed down a little bit. he s only made one movie in the last 20 years. these days he tends to stay fairly close to home. though he s always got a moment for yet another generation of wide-eyed children. for the children who are now parents, he s a dewy-eyed reminder that life was somehow simpler then. oh, yeah. america has changed. why, there aren t any more streetcars. and a pack of gum costs more. but one thing hasn t changed, and that s folks love to laugh and smile. and that s what i love in everybody. of course we are all business here at world news now. we should point out obviously disney is the parent company of abc. mickey has evolved a lot over the years. he has, not only in look but also in name. did you know originally the mouse was going to be called mortimer. walt disney s wife said, too for ....