This is where the urgency and solidarity and audacious determination of national organizations — and residents across the country — are desperately needed, on a par with the tar sands movement. If we can stop the proposed Keystone pipeline, we can stop mountaintop removal.
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Resort briefs: Turtle Dunes Country Club, a Tripp Davis design, has opened on the grounds of the Fairmont Acapulco Princess and the Fairmont Pierre Marques.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in swine flu for the first time since a pandemic shut down much of the country three years ago, while the government insists there’s no need for another international scare.
Federal and state health officials agree there is an increase, but they say the number of cases is within the range of a normal flu season.
Resort briefs: Turtle Dunes Country Club, a Tripp Davis design, has opened on the grounds of the Fairmont Acapulco Princess and the Fairmont Pierre Marques.
Arianna and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Jan 18, challenging the nation’s local leaders to become a voice for the people they represent.
In her speech, Arianna called on American mayors to become active members of their communities and address the growing gaps between the nation’s rich and poor. She hit at the heart of what many consider to be an astounding trend in the US: the increasing downward-mobility of the American middle-class.
With an emphasis on Aol’s Patch network of hyper-local sites, Arianna also told the conference of the growing need to address and cover the nation’s often neglected poorest citizens.
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Large crowds like the one that watched Tiger Woods march toward the 18th green en route to his third Buick Open crown in 2009 make Champions Tour officials think Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club would be a good venue for them in 2013.
Two dozen PGA Tour rookies start their season Thursday at the Sony Open. In some respects, Stewart Cink feels like one of them. “This is a fresh start,” he said Wednesday, walking down the 15th fairway at Waialae Country Club during the best part of the day as the warm sun started to drop toward the Pacific horizon.
Last month I wrote about a bill before Congress that would both help fight the offshoring of call-center jobs and protect consumers. Now the countries where we have been sending those jobs are organizing a lobbying campaign to fight the bill.
The Bill
There is a bipartisan bill before Congress, The U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act, that would let the public know which companies are engaging in sending jobs out of the country, let customers ask to use an American call center instead, and ban federal grants or guaranteed loans to American companies that move call center jobs out of the US. In Call-Center Bill Would Let Customers Ask To Talk To Americans, I wrote about some of the specifics and the reason the bill is needed,
Inside the course: Waialae Country Club, Honolulu
FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2011, file photo, Tiger Woods celebrates after winning the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club, in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Two cases set to be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court in the early part of this year will determine whether we are a cohesive country of laws or whether we are a divided states that would like to make up our own rules as we go along.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Sen. Rick Santorum says rival Mitt Romney’s tax plan is too meek to get the country’s economy moving again.
Romney, in Saturday’s presidential campaign debate, said taxes are too high and they fund a government that is too big. The former Massachusetts governor says the United States is “only inches away” from economic ruin and the next president must reign in the scale of the federal government. But he says some taxes are necessary to pay for the core needs that only Washington can provide.
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Congratulations Dave and Wendy of The Country Club at DC Ranch, a Scottsdale private golf club
Tiger Woods knows he’s playing better than he has in the last two years, and he has the leaderboard to prove it. Woods hit a half-dozen extraordinary shots Friday in the Chevron World Challenge on his way to a 5-under 67, giving him a three-shot lead over Matt Kuchar and K.J. Choi going into the weekend at Sherwood Country Club.
