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The United States has stopped minting the penny as it costs three times more to make it than it’s worth.
Jesse Tinsley/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
Greg Deckard, CEO and chairman of State Bank Northwest, compared the penny situation to the Y2K scare of 2000 when many people feared that computer networks would cease to function.
Arts & Culture
  • Nathan Weinbender runs down his picks for the best 10 movies of 2025.
  • Movie Reviews
    “The Secret Agent” is an intense study of what it meant to be a target of corrupt forces in 1970s Brazil, Dan Webster says.
  • Movies 101
    On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart will be doing what they annually do: giving their impressions of the past year’s films—the good, the bad and the ugly.
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