Rising food prices hit Thanksgiving meals in Sacramento, U.S.
By Jim Downing - 12:00 am

Prices for oil, corn and wheat have been dropping for months, but food prices in the supermarket are still climbing.

Upscale jeweler is set for lackluster season
By Darrell Smith - 12:00 am
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Bo Grebitus is an optimist, which is difficult these days.
Blue Diamond workers reject bid to unionize
By Jim Downing and Stan Oklobdzija - 12:00 am
After a four-year organizing campaign by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, workers at Sacramento's Blue Diamond Growers voted by secret ballot Wednesday not to unionize.
Bob Shallit: Rancho Cordova firm builds biggest LED sign in Big Apple
By Bob Shallit - 12:00 am
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New York's glitzy Times Square will glow a bit brighter today – thanks to a Rancho Cordova company that says it's built the Big Apple's largest LED sign.

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Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes
By ALAN CLENDENNING - 12:25 pm
Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth.

Bob Shallit
Rancho Cordova firm builds biggest LED sign in Big Apple
Bob Shallit New York's glitzy Times Square will glow a bit brighter today – thanks to a Rancho Cordova company that says it's built the Big Apple's largest LED sign.


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Investing Q&A
Q: My wife and I are both in our mid-sixties, retired and have total IRA assets of roughly $650,000 with about two-thirds of that amount in regular IRAs and one-third in Roth IRAs. We currently have a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds consisting of large and small cap equities, international equities and U.S bond funds. Pensions and Social Security generate about $65,000 in annual income. Each year we withdraw approximately $20,000 from the regular IRAs and $5,000 from the Roth IRAs to produce a total annual income of $90,000. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of investing all the Roth IRA assets in a variety of income producing bond mutual funds to generate $10,000 - $12,000 of tax free income each year and reduce the withdrawals from the regular IRAs accordingly?
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