In a down year, Telluride Foundation doles out record amount (Telluride Daily Planet) 12 Mar 2010
On most days, it’s difficult to measure how much a dollar means. But yesterday, it was easy to see: a dollar helps offset childcare for a working family. Helps, just a little bit, put on a festival or pay for medical care.
SCHOOL BOARD RACES: Candidate file in PRSD, WW-P, Montgomery (The Princeton Packet) 12 Mar 2010
Voters will have no shortage of candidates to choose from in the school elections in April.
Understanding our watershed (Telluride Daily Planet) 12 Mar 2010
Telluride Middle School’s seventh grade class put on a presentation for parents and students Thursday at the Palm Theatre, marking the culmination of a five-week intensive study of the ecological health and indicators of the San Juan watershed. Students presented poems onstage and short films produced by the students, each focusing on a different facet of the study, were shown. Pictured here are …
Planet Election Guide: Ophir property tax measure (Telluride Daily Planet) 12 Mar 2010
The Town of Ophir has put a measure on November’s ballot that would raise property taxes by 3 mils.
At the Capitol / Mining ‘damage deposits’ put on hold (Pioneer Press) 12 Mar 2010
An effort to require future copper-nickel mining projects to pay so-called “damage deposits” so the public isn’t hit with expensive cleanup costs is dead for the session, its chief Senate sponsor conceded Thursday.
Appeal filed in Phil Spector case (AP via Yahoo! News) 11 Mar 2010
Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
Class 3A girls: Lacey Dickerson’s put-back puts Tishomingo in semifinals (The Oklahoman) 11 Mar 2010
CHOCTAW — Lacey Dickerson refused to let her last shot for Tishomingo be a miss. She grabbed her own rebound and made the put-back, positioning her team to beat Prague 31-27 Thursday afternoon in Class 3A girls’ state tournament at Choctaw High School.Dickerson led the Lady Indians with 14 points, six coming in the fourth quarter.After Dickerson’s basket, Prague was down 29-27 with 37 seconds …
Potholes put dent in city coffers (USA Today) 11 Mar 2010
Drivers are battling an epidemic of teeth-rattling potholes, jarring not only wheels and tires but also transportation departments trying to pay for road fixes.
AIHA Offers Comments, Recommendations At OSHA Public Forum (SafetyOnline) 11 Mar 2010
On March 4, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) participated in the “OSHA Listens” public meeting. The all-day, live webcast addressed issues posed by the agency, and featured input from numerous stakeholders, including AIHA, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and ordinary citizens who lost family members due to …
House GOP leaders press for earmark moratorium (The World) 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going cold turkey and giving up the long-cherished practice of directing federal dollars to their home districts.
APNewsBreak: Calif. murder suspect broke parole (AP via Yahoo! News) 11 Mar 2010
A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Great Falls city attorney Santoro comments on SME document case Play Video (KXLH Helena) 11 Mar 2010
Earlier this week, a district court judge ruled that a majority of the sealed documents pertaining to the Highwood Generating Station should be made public.
Resident suffers burns after trying to put out fire (KGO-TV Bay Area) 11 Mar 2010
A San Francisco resident suffered burns when he tried to put out a fire on the outside of his apartment building.
Bullying Flap Shakes Japan’s Royals (New York Times) 11 Mar 2010
The bullying of the 8-year-old daughter of Princess Masako has put the princess’s history of depression into the glare of Japan’s tabloid press.
Mayor wants to put brakes on rail (ABC 13 Houston) 11 Mar 2010
Houston Mayor Annise Parker wants to put the brakes, at least for now, on part of METRO’s rail expansion plan