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A new federal tax on medical-device makers doesn’t go into effect until 2013 but local companies in the Boulder Valley are already coming up with ways to cope with the increase.

One day after announcing that it was cutting 8% of its workforce or some 27,000 positions, there’s still no word as to what the impact might be at the Hewlett Packard campus in Fort Collins. In fact, it’s not very well-know just how many people HP employs in Fort Collins. Estimates vary.

On the campaign trail, President Obama is renewing calls on Congress to extend a popular tax credit on wind energy production. 

The highly respected journalists at New Orleans' Times-Picayune last night found out the hard way — from another news outlet — that they're about to face deep staff cuts and that the newspaper will soon only print three days a week.

The New York Times' Media Decoder broke the story Wednesday just before midnight ET.