Chicago Unveils Multifaceted Plan to Curb Emissions of Heat-Trapping Gases
The blueprint would change the city s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.
Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter
Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.
California Bans Texting by Operators of Trains
After investigators said an engineer in last week s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.
National Briefing | Immigration: Meat Plant Names Top Executive
Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.
Canadians still ‘distrust’ United States: poll (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Canadians are no more loving of the United States under its current leadership than during George W. Bush’s presidency, suggested a poll published Monday.
Gunmen kill US airman in attack on bar in Mexico (MalaysiaNews.net)
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.Meanwhile, gunmen…
Husband of Alaska Governor Refuses to Testify in Legislature s Trooper Inquiry
Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.
Stand up for Justice, America! (Khaleej Times)
It seems the more things change in the United States, the more they remain the same. While President Barack Obama appears to be trying his best to mend America s battered relations with the Arab and Muslim world and strives for some semblance of balance in ties with Israel, the entire US establishment remains hopelessly biased in favour of Israel.
