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This Posh Resort Area Has a Major Housing Crisis

Houses sit empty in Idaho's Sun Valley as teachers and firefighters live in RVs and garages

(Newser) - Nestled 6,000 feet in the Idaho Rockies, Sun Valley is a longtime playground for the exceptionally wealthy. For example, an assortment of moguls and titans (think Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg) gathered there last month for the annual “summer camp for billionaires,” per Variety . The nearby town...

Media Moguls: Obama's Scaring Big Business

Sun Valley conference a pessimistic affair

(Newser) - The Sun Valley summit of media titans last week was a dour affair, with the CEOs lamenting the poor state of the economy—and how little faith they have in the Obama administration to fix it. In on- and off-the-record conversations with the moguls, Peter Lauria of the Daily Beast...

At Sun Valley, Media Moguls Will Obsess on Paid Content

(Newser) - From Rupert Murdoch to Twitter founder Evan Williams, moguls old and young descend on Sun Valley, Idaho, this week for an annual summit on media and technology. This year, reports the Financial Times, the dominant question concerns paid content—a debate that has spread from the troubled newspaper industry to...

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