Virginia Tech will offer the families of the 32 students and faculty members killed in the April 16th massacre a one-time payment of $180,000 from a fund created to receive private donations. The fund, called the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, has raised $7.1 million. The University plans to distribute the entire fund to the [...]
Investigators in Minnesota have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed in that state resulting in the loss of lives. The flaw in the steel parts that connected girders raises safety concerns for other bridges around the country. As a result, the Federal Highway Administration has urged all [...]
At first, I was sort of shocked to learn that Halliburton Co. is shifting 70% of its capital investment over the next five years to the Eastern Hemisphere, which includes oil and gas zones in the Middle East, Russia, Africa, the North Sea and East Asia. But, after considering the company’s history, I soon realized [...]
A June ruling by a federal appeals court in New York has cleared the way for TV networks to use the worst sort of foul language in their programming at any time of day. That means children will be subject to hearing filthy language on television sets without restriction. I have to wonder [...]
Nearly half of the nation’s toxic waste sites are connected to some 100 companies that spent more than a billion dollars lobbying Congress and the federal government from 1998 through 2005, according to a year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington-based organization. Corporations responsible for hundreds of the [...]
