Pa. Senate highways plan would up ante 50 percent
MARC LEVY , The Associated PressPosted: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 11:47 AM HARRISBURG, Pa. – Spending on Pennsylvania’s highways, bridges and mass transit systems would get a huge shot of ...
RIO+20: Reforestation Pledges Reach Only 12 Percent of Target
Active Citizens, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Climate Change, Conferences, Development & Aid, Environment, Green Economy, Headlines, Reframing Rio, Regional Categories, World RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 2012 (IPS) – The world’s ...
Woods’ agent charged with aggravated DWI after N.Y. arrest
Sunday June 03, 2012 – 5:57 PM NEW YORK — Tiger Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, has been arrested on drunken driving charges in suburban New York. Police state Steinberg was ...
Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but less feared
WASHINGTON — A new poll finds Americans are still cool to President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the constitutionality ...
Shortage of London cabs feared over Olympics snub
Flagging down a black cab on London’s streets may prove a tiny harder during this year’s Olympics after taxi drivers had a request to raise fares by 22 percent ...
Japan’s PM reshuffles Cabinet to win tax support
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five members of his Cabinet on Friday in a bid to win more cooperation from the opposition to raise the sales tax ...
Mexican team bobbles heart headed for transplant
MEXICO CITY — Mexican medics are drawing catcalls after they dropped a heart being rushed to a hospital for a transplant. Don’t miss these Health stories Cut 10 ...
Jamaica opposition scores landslide win at polls
KINGSTON — Jamaica’s main opposition party rode a wave of discontent with a bad economy to a large win at the polls on Thursday, in elections that swept former Prime ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Marching for 100 Percent Change
DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 4, 2011 (IPS) – Chanting loudly, thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets to the venue of the 17th United Nations Climate Change Conference to demand ...
Pa. House committee OKs local shale fee
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania House Republicans on Wednesday voted a measure out of committee that would impose a local impact fee on natural gas drilling and establish new say regulations ...
