Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back—back to strong local economies; back to resilient, tight-knit communities; [...]
Capt. Michael Clauer’s homeowners’ association foreclosed on his family’s $300,000 house and sold it for $3,500. — By Nick Baumann Michael Clauer is a captain in the Army Reserve who commanded over 100 soldiers in Iraq. But while he was fighting for his country, a different kind of battle was brewing on the home front. [...]
In a rare, Page 1 editorial The Times-Picayune tells the president that Louisiana should get a share of the oil and gas wealth being mined off its shores now, and not have to wait until 2017 when a revenue-sharing measure that was adopted in 2006 takes effect. The edtorial Friday begins: Louisiana fought for decades [...]
LONDON — More than a thousand pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside the Israeli embassy in London Monday to denounce Israel’s storming of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla which left at least nine people dead.Waving Palestinian flags and placards saying “Disarm Israel” and accusing Israel of “war crimes”, the protesters had earlier marched through the capital and stopped [...]
Speaking to graduating cadets at West Point on Saturday, President Obama noted the “ultimate sacrifice” of 78 of their predecessors who gave up their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he did not mention that just days before, five U.S. soldiers were killed in Kabul, bringing the toll of American dead in Afghanistan to over [...]
The Audubon Society is asking its members and activists and everyone to write to President Barak Obama and ask him to stop new offshore drilling in the Arctic. “Despite press accounts that new offshore drilling is on hold, Shell Oil is moving forward with plans to start exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean this July—even [...]
Two of Connecticut’s top guns, General Electric and United Technologies Corp., waged a war of words Wednesday in print and over the air. The annual fight over funding for an alternate engine program for the Joint Strike Fighter, an advanced fighter jet, turned into a public spectacle as the normally staid blue-chip companies bashed each [...]
Washington – The Navy’s new nuclear-missile submarine could cost on average about $1 billion more than the service projects, according to congressional budget analysts. Each submarine could cost about $8.2 billion, or almost 14 percent more than the Navy's estimate of $7.2 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said. The first ship of the class – [...]
In his opening speech at the 2010 conference, Global Reporting Initiative Chief Executive Ernst Ligteringen put forth several propositions pertaining to the future of GRI and the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Take the survey by following the link below. All responses must be in by 12 noon on Friday 28 May 2010. Please take part [...]
The Pentagon has now told the public, for the first time, precisely how many nuclear weapons the United States has in its arsenal: 5,113. That is exactly 4,802 more than we need. Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the Senate to advocate approval of the so-called [...]
