Mother Nature strikes again! Hurricane Ike brings with it (besides water
and winds) a few deaths, damage to properties, many homes without
electricity and water. Well, besides the damage caused to the Gulf Coast,
has there been any damage elsewhere?
Have you checked out the gas prices of late? If you were driving to school
you would have definitely felt the jolt! According to the AAA, gas prices
nationwide rose 6 cents a gallon, to 3.73$$ after Ike. Though the eye of
the storm missed the Houston-Galveston area, the nation is in a fuel
crisis.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=6389646
www.kansascity.com/449/story/795040.html
As a result of rise in gas prices, the foreign import of low-grade
gasoline may increase to meet the rising demand. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) waiving certain stringent requirements for using
high quality, less polluting gasoline facilitated this. Would it be
beneficial to the e...
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Colgate
14
37
51
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(16) Syracuse
43
43
86
Carrier Dome (Syracuse, NY)
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Wisconsin
38
36
74
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Virginia Tech
30
42
72
Cassell Coliseum (Blacksburg, VA)
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CSU Northridge
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26
47
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Drexel
22
33
55
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I grew up in the Aldine area in the Northline Terrace subdivision near Gulf Bank Rd and Sweetwater. I attended Inez Carroll elementary on Raymac Street as well as Aldine High School. Inez Carroll at one time was known as one of the best elementary schools in Texas. I just discovered last week that the old Inez Carroll building was torn down. It appears to have happened about 4 years a go now. It’s pretty sad that everything I remember about that school is gone. It got me wondering when th... more
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season ended Sunday, marking the finish of one of the busiest and costliest hurricane seasons ever. The damage caused by this year’s Atlantic hurricanes is estimated at $54 billion, according to the National Climatic Data Center. That’s second in recorded history only to 2005, the year Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast.
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Our own Robert Reich was called on this week by satirist Stephen Colbert to explain how the Democratic front runners will devour themselves. After Prof. Reich soundly rebuffed Colbert’s characterization of the Democrats as self-destructive, he faced a battery of culinary metaphors as Colbert attempted to extract Prof. Reich’s candidate preference.
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Last Friday, the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) held its 2nd annual Energy Symposium at the MLK Student Union. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together students, researches, and professor from UC-Berkeley with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, state officials, and other business people. The symposium was an all day event consisting welcoming remarks by Paul Wright (director of CITRIS) and a taped address by Barbara Boxer . The morning keynote by ... more
Today, the California Supreme Court convened in San Francisco for three hours of arguments about same-sex marriage in California. Each side was allotted ninety minutes of time to make their case, as an overflow audience watched the proceedings on video screens in a nearby building (and in auditoriums across the state, including here on the UC Berkeley campus).
Much argument centered around a 1948 case in which the Court struck down California’s ban on inter-racial marriage. In th... more
As Wall Street puts a low rating on municipal bonds, the cost of improving schools, roads and bridges goes up... cost that gets passed on to the taxpayer in the form of higher fees and interest on public debt.
States and Cities Start Rebelling on Bond Ratings: Does Wall Street underrate Main Street? - 3 March 2008 - The New York Times ... more
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