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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to today's Daily News (page 4C), the
Palouse Mall gave a locally-owned business (Homestyle Laundry and Dry Cleaning)
30 days to vacate their storefront at the mall.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>30 days!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So the owners are shutting down the
business.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why? according to the DN, the mall had no
comment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This does fit in a pattern of the mall killing
locally-owned businesses to replace them with national chainstores.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BL</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>