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The threat is hardly new. Earlier this year, a USA TODAY investigation of cyber and physical attacks on the U.S. grid over several years found that incidents occur about once every four days.

Plum Creek employs more than 1,200 people nationwide and started as a small logging company in Minnesota in 1944. It opened its first sawmill in Columbia Falls two years later and has since been a cornerstone of the community. It is currently based in Seattle.

Weyerhaeuser is buying Plum Creek for $8.4 billion to form the nation’s largest private owner of timberland, the Seattle-area firms announced Sunday.

The study compares states using 35 metrics that measure overall economic performance, and identifies the top ten states in six important policy categories for job growth and economic health: Economic Performance; High-Tech Performance; Transportation and Trade; Talent Pipeline; Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Business Climate.

Is the Park thinking about limiting the numbers of visitors?

Word came Wednesday that Occidental Petroleum – the fourth largest U.S. oil producer – will exit the Bakken in a move to slash its capital budget by $300 million.

"Improving access to justice is a priority," said Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School, explaining why Harvard has embarked on the project. "We feel an obligation and an opportunity here to open up our resources to the public."

“We need to ensure that all children have access to intensive early intervention; that school-based interventions to support academics, as well as social and language skills, are adequately funded; and that supports are put in place to ensure better post-secondary and vocational options for adults. Investing in these areas, I believe, will actually reduce the costs to society.”

SoFi is using the new money to lower its interest rates and expand its products — all in the hopes of fully replacing the incumbents that still control much of this country’s financial system.

"They don’t have any choice but to innovate."