Thursday Morning Links

WSJ Links

Section D (Personal Journal): museum review, Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, The Frazier History Museum, through June 15; a dispassionate examination of the business of slavery, stripped of any moral or political commentary.

Section C (Money & Investing): nothing of interest. Crude oil supplies were reported at the blog earlier.

Section B (Marketplace):
Boeing tries a fix for 787

US coal steams offshore: us coal exports are surging to Europe -- many, many story lines (Europe leads discussion on global warming; Europe's experience with wind and solar energy; if the US ports on the West Coast -- e.g., Portland, OR, -- don't want to ship coal, the US ports on the East Coast will)

Oklahoma City fears an end to Chesapeake's largess

Idaho seeks to tax the cloud; says web services are subject to sales taxation

Section A:

Page 3, and we've talked about page before: library that holds no books; my home county plans to open facility that will offer users only digital editions; huge story; almost the entire third page, with lots of photos; this will open on the south side of the city; the article doesn't have the exact location, but says the Casa del Kabob is located nearby; if so, this library will truly be on the South Side. I am impressed. The South Side has complained for a long time that there are no bookstores located there; predominantly Hispanic; probably a huge under-count in the census in this area;

I'll save the op-ed, "The Unscary Sequester" for a stand-alone post.