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Bear Lake resort gets tentative go-ahead
SALT LAKE CITY -- Developers have tentative approval to start building a luxury resort with golf and skiing on the Idaho side of Bear Lake. The Black Bear Resort plans to start selling the first of thousands of custom building lots by summer 2009, giving the market for high-end developments time to recover. Idaho regulators still have to be convinced the resort has enough water rights. To compensate for groundwater withdrawals, the developers say they bought a ranch at another location where they will leave water rights untouched. Times poll: Bush is sinking the economy WASHINGTON -- Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year. Only 9 percent of respondents said the country's economic condition has become better off since Bush became president, compared with 75 percent who said conditions had worsened. Among Republicans, 42 percent said the country is worse off, while 26 percent said it is about the same, and only 22 percent said economic conditions had improved. |
