The flow has slowed through the trans-Alaska oil pipeline
Posted in News, Politics, Science, Tech, economy, what on August 10th, 2010 by admin – Comments Off
In 1977, one of the engineering marvels of the modern world made its debut: the trans-Alaska pipeline, 48 inches of steel traversing 800 miles, three mountain ranges and more than 800 rivers and streams.
In its heyday in the 1980s, the pipeline carried as much as 2.1 million barrels of oil a day from America’s largest oil field at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez. Alaska was transformed into a petro state with an oil savings account worth $33.3 billion.
Ansel Adams negatives revealed? Fresno man makes his case
Posted in Celeb, News, what on July 28th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffA wall painter for the Fresno school district who bought a cache of antique glass-plate photographic negatives at a garage sale 10 years ago laid out his case Tuesday that they were created by Ansel Adams early in his career, offering affirmations from photographic and forensic experts he had hired.
In a Beverly Hills gallery packed with reporters and photographers, Rick Norsigian and the Beverly Hills law firm that is helping him market prints made from the negatives (and promote a documentary about his find) said the negatives of Yosemite, the San Francisco waterfront, and Carmel’s mission and nearby Point Lobos were taken by Adams from 1919 to the 1930s, before he became famous as the visual bard of America’s natural landscape.
According to David W. Streets, the gallery owner who hosted the news conference and was part of a team of appraisers, the eventual yield from selling prints struck from Norsigian’s find could amount to more than $200 million.
In campaign mode, Obama slams GOP as obstructionist
Posted in Health, News, Politics, economy, what on July 18th, 2010 by admin – Comments Off
Moving into campaign mode, President Obama on Saturday cast the Republicans as an obstructionist force bent on impeding the nation’s economic recovery for political purposes.
Obama used his weekly radio address to deliver a message that Senate Republicans are also blocking an extension of jobless benefits to millions of unemployed Americans suffering in a tough economy.
Senate passes sweeping financial overhaul legislation
Posted in Health, News, Politics, economy on July 16th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffNearly two years after a financial crisis triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression, the Senate approved bold and controversial legislation aimed at preventing a repeat — and set the stage for a showdown over the issue in this fall’s midterm elections.
The 60-39 vote Thursday was a major victory for President Obama and Democratic leaders and marked the second landmark overhaul — the first was healthcare reform — that the administration has pushed through Congress this year.
Teaching ’stuff’ about ecology
Posted in News, Science, Video, what on July 13th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffAnnie Leonard used to spout jargon. She reveled in the sort of geek-speak that glazes your eyeballs.
Externalized costs, paradigm shifts, the precautionary principle, extended producer responsibility.
That was before she discovered cartoons.
A rapid-fire chain of events led to Gen. McChrystal’s downfall
Posted in News, Politics, what on June 24th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffGen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s team knew it had a problem on its hands last Thursday, when fact checkers for Rolling Stone magazine sent in questions for an upcoming cover story.
Did the Afghanistan commander’s inner circle really refer to itself as “Team America”? read one question that landed on the desk of McChrystal’s press aide, Duncan Boothby.
It was hardly the most explosive revelation in the piece, but it served as an early warning that McChrystal’s decision to allow generous access might have backfired.
Borrowing is Nearly Half of All U.S. Federal Government Funding
Posted in News on May 22nd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off
The above chart shows the projected sources of funding (receipts) for the U.S. Government for 2009. Borrowing (the federal budget deficit) is projected to account for nearly half of all funding. If you read yesterday’s post, you also know that the amount of borrowing in 2009 is likely to increase (because the Obama administration’s budget assumptions are too optimistic).
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