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Longview News-Journal business editor Mike Elswick, fickle fleeting fingers racing across his keyboard, updates East Texans on business and consumer issues affecting them and the region in his blog -- BizBuzz. Mike, a self-professed business news junkie, joined the News-Journal staff in March 1984 and has covered a variety of issues, events and personalities in that time. His newspaper career has also included time as circulation director and a community newspaper publisher. He and his wife Nancy raised their three children in Longview and they have two grandchildren.

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East Texas Starbucks on company closing list

By Mike Elswick | Monday, July 21, 2008, 04:44 PM

Java junkies across the state will soon have fewer options for fulfilling their caffeine cravings. Starbucks has announced the closing of about 600 of its coffee houses nationwide, and 57 of those are in Texas.

Included on the list are Mount Pleasant and Paris locations. Not on the list are Longview Starbucks.

Dallas and Houston will have the most store closings - nine and eight, respectively.

Elsewhere, four stores will be closed in both Arlington and Plano; three in Fort Worth; two in Austin, Corpus Christi, Frisco and Rosenberg; and one in Brownsville, Brownwood, Desoto, Duncanville, El Paso, Farmers Branch, Garland, Humble, Kingsville, Laredo, Mesquite, Mount Pleasant, Paris, Plainview, Red Oak, Rockport, San Antonio, Victoria, Waco, White Settlement and Wichita Falls.

Closings will begin this month and continue through the first half of next year.

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