Ok, I was watching a local East Idaho TV news program. They ran a national story about getting sick from reusable grocery bags. What got me was in their intro to the story they said that plastic grocery bags just ended up in the landfill. Well not if you recycle them!
When plastic grocery bags […] Continue Reading…
Today I was dropping off my recyclables at the dumpsters next to Pocatello City Hall, when a city employee told me I was wasting my time dropping off the glass and styrofoam. He said the glass and styrofoam dumpster went straight to the landfill.
This is not the first time I’ve heard this. Many years […] Continue Reading…
Europeans were told that a Mumbai style terrorist attack in Europe was foiled, do they care? Hell no! Why? Because, according to strikers in Latvia, people are dying because of the drastic measures undertaken by their government to deal with their crashing economy. In other words, Europeans are more afraid of their governments […] Continue Reading…
Anyone who bought drywall from Lowe’s prior to July 27, 2010, and it was defective causing damage or injury, could collect a settlement payment.
Lowe’s has made a settlement offer in a lawsuit, that will be heard for approval by a Georgia Superior Court on November 19th.
Faulty drywall can emit sulfur gas, which can damage […] Continue Reading…
27 September 2010
Signs of a coming food crisis are everywhere. Most notably at the source, the farms that grow the basic crops. Here on the east side of Idaho, farmers had to deal with a spring that was too cool too long, resulting in crops being planted weeks late, and then a short summer […] Continue Reading…
The United States has been facing an education crisis for the past 10 years, getting worse, and worse. Now, 2010, many are thinking of ways to fix the education system. However, most arguments are for one of three probable issues; techers, students, or administration.
Teachers
From my experience in school, more and more of the good […] Continue Reading…
While it was not a bill itself, the defense funding bill failed to get the required 60 votes to pass Tuesday. Although it had majority support, many senators voted against the bill because it had too many amendments.
“…I cannot vote to proceed to this bill under a situation that is going to shut down […] Continue Reading…
Over the next 6 years, Arlington County, Virginia, is planning to replace all 4,200 high pressure sodium (HPS) street lights owned by the county with LED street lights. Spending approximately $1.5 million just in 2010 to replace 1,800 fixtures with LED technology.
However, Dominion Power owns 12,000 street lights in Arlington County. The […] Continue Reading…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV – D.) wants to push a bill that repeals the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ rule put in place by the Pentagon in 1993. This rule bans gays from openly serving in the U.S. military.
This repeal is attached to the $726 billion defense bill, which is set to […] Continue Reading…