March opening planned for new M&MMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 8:30PMThe building that formerly housed Palm’s M&M has new owners who plan a March opening and some changes, including a new name for the restaurant.
Immediate go-ahead for heritage works if papers in orderMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:47PMTHE Penang Municipal Council may give approval within a day for heritage building owners to repair and conserve their premises if their paperwork is in order.
UN highlights plight of impoverished drug addictsMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:47PMWhile celebrities earn notoriety from publicly going into rehab, millions of impoverished drug addicts are being ostracized, do not have access to doctors and are often imprisoned, a senior U.N.
Tea Party targets budget, Dems' gun bill tacticsMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:20PMRICHMOND, Va. - Six days from adjourning the 2010 General Assembly, the partisan and ideological rhetoric on Monday was the most bare-knuckled since the General Assembly convened, highlighting deep divides playing out not only in the state capital but in Congress.
Hare works on educationMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:20PMROSEVILLE — U.S. Rep Phil Hare, D-Rock Island, discussed education reform in an intimate setting in the Monmouth-Roseville Junior High School band room with Superintendent Paul Woehlke, Principal Don Farr and PBIS coordinator Rebecca Harris.
Border mayors lobby to improve customs, portsMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 5:27PMLocal officials back various efforts in Congress to provide up to $6 billion to repair and expand ports of entry and hire more customs agents.
Furniture spending at city under fireThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 3:37AM(Mar 4, 2010) - When the city said it planned to spend more than $800,000 a year on office furniture last month, it raised eyebrows.
TOM WALSH: GM honchos are in state of fluxThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 3:13AMAnd the revolving door at General Motors' Renaissance Center headquarters keeps on turning, ushering in new bosses and whisking out the old.
Assemblyman finally opens his new officeThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 3:11AMWASHINGTON TWP. -- It's been two months since Assemblyman Domenick DiCicco became a member of the Legislature, and his new office here is almost ready.
Neighborhoods gird for city cutsThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:57AMTivoly Avenue redevelopment among the projects likely to feel budget cuts Plywood boards scrawled with graffiti cover the doors and windows of more than half the homes in the 2700 block of Tivoly Ave. Drug dealers move along the street, lingering on the porches of vacant houses, residents say. Jagged bottles, mangled plastic chairs and broken toys are heaped in a vacant lot.
County seeks new way to provide code enforcementThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:32AMAfter its proposal to set code enforcement prices at rates intentionally unaffordable to towns and villages was rejected by the only village using the service, Cayuga County is looking into another way to fulfill its obligation to provide code enforcement without having to send its own officer.
Community calendarThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:02AMJW Art Gallery, 99 Cortez Ave., in Hurley, will feature new pen and ink contour drawings by Elvira Godfrey of Silver City starting today.
Citigroup’s Auction-Rate Bonds Freeze $1 Billion in Hawaii CashThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:46AMMarch 4 (Bloomberg) -- Two years after the auction-rate bond market froze, Hawaii has lost about $250 million in market value on $1 billion in student-loan securities sold by a single Citigroup Inc.
University Heights City Council expresses concerns about 'sensible salting' policyThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 12:52AMUNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -- City Council may re-examine the city's "sensible salting" policy for salting its roads during the winter. Council members expressed concerns about the policy when council's Committee of the Whole met Feb. 16.
Goldman Sachs: the bank they love to hateWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:55AMSenator Chris Dodd was preparing for one of the biggest meetings of his career last Thursday. The Democrat has been at the forefront of the battle over President Barack Obama’s polarising healthcare reforms and for weeks had been preparing for a bipartisan summit at the White House.
Special session: Gibbons, lawmakers show rare cooperation during special sessionWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:38AMDespite disagreements over how to close Nevada's $805 million budget shortfall, lawmakers and the governor added a political ingredient during the 26th special session often missing in Carson City: bipartisanship. Among the final scenes of the special session, after hours of closed door negotiations, was Gov. Jim Gibbons standing with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to present their final ...
No layoffs expected: Selectmen approve increased budgetWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:14AMThe Sandwich Selectmen approved a $65,780,000 budget last week that would prevent the town from having to lay off any general government employees.
McCaffery: Sixers players not into Jordan’s rulesWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:26AMPHILADELPHIA —- The quarter-century march to no place had brought the 76ers only back to frustration, so when Eddie Jordan arrived with an odd assortment of Plan Bs, there was motivation to thumb through the portfolio.
NYRA weighs major cutsWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:17AMSARATOGA SPRINGS — New York Racing Association might take several major cost-cutting steps today during its most important meeting since reorganizing 18 months ago.
Data was withheld, admits Climatic Research Unit chiefWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 3:47AMPhil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, appears before the Science and Technology Committee in Portcullis House, London. Photo: PA The head of the research unit at the centre of the "Climategate" row over global warming science admitted to MPs yesterday that he had not released data about his work because it was not standard practice to do so.
Halloween supplier Distortions Unlimited has a new house to hauntWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 3:38AMGreeley's original Halloween fright master is on the move. Distortions Unlimited, which for 32 years has put its mark on the Halloween industry with masks and dead bodies and electric chairs and aliens, has spent the last week moving into a new building in east Greeley. For 14 years, the business was located at 152 E. 30th St. in southeast Greeley. One week and 20 truckloads later, owners Ed and ...
A legacy of service, friendshipSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 5:41AMR ussell Sears was there when the state police barracks opened on Taylor Avenue in Annapolis in 1971, and he was there when it closed in 2008.
Many rapes go unreported on UW campusesSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:45AMEditors note: This report contains descriptions that readers might find disturbing.
'I thought I was going to die'Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:13AMBARBARIC living conditions and the horror they experienced while they fought hard to escape through a window as fire engulfed the small dormitory at Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre last May, were last week recounted by two survivors in a painful interview with the Sunday Observer.
SCHOOL EVENTSSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:02AMJoliet West and Central high schools offer more than 20 dual-enrollment courses to students. Students who successfully complete dual-credit courses are eligible to receive both high school and college credit.
Many UW rapes go unreportedSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:00AMEditors note: This report contains descriptions that readers may find disturbing.
AROUND TOWNSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 3:36AMSUNDAY ARTS “Saint Joan”: 2 p.m. in the Gallaway Theatre, Stadium Drive on the University of Alabama campus. George Bernard Shaw’s play about Joan of Arc. Presented by the UA department of theater and dance. Tickets are $17 for adults; $15 for UA faculty/staff and senior citizens; $12 for students/
Chilean residents on edge over fear of aftershocksSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 3:33AMWary residents fearing aftershocks camped outside on mattresses and lawn chairs early Sunday after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades flattened buildings and blanketed the capital city in darkness.
After eight years, Uribe a fighter until the endSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 12:54PMBOGOTA (Reuters) - When first elected in 2002, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe vowed he would bring the country's Marxist rebels to their knees and draw investors back to a country dismissed as a failing state mired in violence.
Stomping in the BurgSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 11:34AM"Sprite Step Off" stepped onto the screen rounding out MTV's new series lineup. Hip-Hop star Ludacris, son of an Alpha Kappa Alpha, is hosting this step competition with a fresh eye.
What does your lawmaker earn?Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 11:25AMSome Staten Island elected officials add outside pay to government salaries
Candidates ready to runSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 10:13AMTEWKSBURY – The close of another nomination season in Tewksbury leaves residents only two contested races for the April 10 Election.
Bill would retract bonuses paid to underperforming CEOsSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 10:11AMWASHINGTON — Shareholders would have more say in how much corporate executives get paid, and regulators could take back bonuses paid to executives who managed their companies poorly, under legislation Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey introduced Friday.
Factory to furniture: Company turns wood from old mill into high-end keepsakesSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 9:59AMThe former site of the Bessemer City Cotton Mills on Virginia Avenue is now a vacant lot, but many local residents still hold onto memories of the historic mill. And if those folks would like something more substantial to remember the old mill by,...
Two-century-old Federal style on the marketSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 9:17AMStanding in Vermont since 1801 and more than a century later slated to be replaced by a gas station, the Windsor House was moved to Connecticut in the 1930s by the Bloomingdale family, the home's residents for many years.
Porter: Sharpen up our rinks with 'wild imaginings'Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 5:27AMWallace Emerson was the last rink house I visited this week. I barely made it. It was dark and the snow was whipping. I was on my fifth streetcar of the afternoon. It meant getting off and waiting for the Dufferin bus.
Vincent starts new accounting businessSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 5:24AMWhen tax time comes around, most people aren't uttering joyous interjections. But one Marshall man hopes his business will have people saying Yippie.
Bill would punish CEOs who do poorlySaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 4:53AMShareholders would have more say in how much corporate executives get paid, and regulators could take back bonuses paid to executives who managed their companies poorly, under legislation Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey introduced Friday.
Montgomery group works to break racial barriersSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 4:04AMOne Montgomery is accepting new members. To join, residents can attend the organization's meetings at 7 a.m. Tuesdays in the Goode Building at Jackson Hospital, 1725 Pine St. in Montgomery. Those interested in joining also can call One Montgomery co-chairs Ben Benford at 269-3401 or LuAnn Bird at 612-7059. ((/factbox)) Montgomery group works to break racial barriers
Around town 2/27Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 3:35AMSATURDAY ARTS
Rep. Leonard Lance seeking re-election as fiscal conservativeSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 3:32AMFLEMINGTON — Flanked by Republican supporters Tuesday inside the historic Hunterdon County Courthouse, U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J. 7th District, touted a record of fiscal conservatism as he launched his reelection campaign for a 7th District U.S. House seat.
Stone wants to keep Felton Library openWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:27PMSanta Cruz County Supervisor Mark Stone re-iterated to the Felton Library Friends that he will continue to fight to keep the Felton Library branch open, even in the midst of continuing budget cuts for the whole library system.
OFM Draws Inspiration from Museum ExhibitWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:13PMOFM, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2010 HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. – OFM, one of the nation’s leading office and school furniture manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers, is drawing inspiration from the current traveling exhibit, Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller . The company is moved at the attention office furniture is getting and how the importance of design in everyday life is ...
Beacon Hill Roll Call: Harkins takes no per diem paymentsWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:05PMTHE HOUSE AND SENATE. Last week was a very slow one on Beacon Hill, as the House and Senate met only in brief, informal sessions. The Legislature, for many years, has not scheduled any formal important sessions during the February school vacation week.