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The owners of the Mount Royal Tavern in Baltimore, Md., decided they'd heard enough profanity so they instituted a no cuss bucket. Customers have to pay 25 cents per bad word. Bartenders must pay $1 per profanity. The bar collected $110 in just three weeks which it donated to the SPCA.

The city of Fort Collins and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway recently signed an agreement that will allow the long-awaited Mason Corridor Project to get underway this summer in Fort Collins.  KUNC’s Erin O’Toole talks with Northern Colorado Business Report publisher Jeff Nuttall about the impact of the project.

Renee Montagne talks with Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center, about what President Obama needs to convey to the Arab world in today's speech on the Middle East.

The biggest Initial Public Offering of stock so far this year is taking place in London and Hong Kong today. The giant commodities firm Glencore is hoping to raise eleven billion dollars.

Gay marriage advocates in New York are preparing another effort at persuading the state legislature to approve same-sex marriage. Recent polls show that a majority of New Yorkers support same-sex marriage. A similar bill failed a year and a half ago.