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Steve McGough
FoxNews.com has the AP story from Seattle where the mayor and city council president want to charge residents 20 cents for each plastic bag they used to take home their stuff. The stores and the government would share in the revenue generated by the bag sales. They also want to place a ban on foam…
There is quite a bit of blame going on concerning the so-called subprime loan crisis. Depending on who you speak with, it’s either the predatory lenders that took advantage of people, or it was the people who signed the contract that clearly stated they were buying into an adjustable rate mortgage, but just didn’t care.…
If anything can be defined as a crisis, the current high school dropout rate statistics just might qualify. America’s Promise Alliance, founded by Colin Powell, released a report entitled Cities in Crisis, A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation [PDF, 1.8 MB]. Overall, only seven in 10 high school student go on to graduate,…
I read an article earlier today on FoxNews.com concerning a high school student who received a failing grade on an art project because it included a Bible reference. For the project, students were asked to draw a landscape. It looks like all of the pieces were charcoal works and one of the students included a…
How bad is the current economy? Certainly we’re having some issues with fuel prices, and falling house values are causing an issue for some people who chose an adjustable rate mortgage within the past five years. John R. Lott Jr. from FoxNews.com takes a quick look at how the media can drive economic news.
Google posted a pretty good April Fools joke this year. I drove into work ready to find jokes and saw this one immediately when logging in. Pretty funny. Full information on the new service.
I call it the “we-have-to-do-something” disease. A tragic event occurs – or almost occurs – and everyone screams that the government should do something to solve the problem or prevent it from occurring again. It’s happening in Connecticut in reaction to a few tragic car accidents where teens were driving too damn fast, it happened…
Why does the government make things so difficult? By definition – since we’re talking about the government after all – this is a rhetorical question, but some people are so confused about recycling rules that they have simply given up; hiding plastics of all sorts inside of paper bags in the regular trash cans. I…