Board of Governors Looks to Next Year’s Budget
The governing board for Florida’s higher education system meets Wednesday and Thursday and top on the agenda is discussing ways to keep the university system running with a flat budget for the next two years. The body for the 11-institution system lobbied hard for money in the 2009 legislative session. Members told lawmakers that cuts [...]
Aaron Bean: Health Choices to Hire CEO by November
The board overseeing a legislatively-created health insurance venture hopes to have a top executive hired in November as it attempts to create a marketplace of options for employers who can’t afford to offer workers more traditional coverage. A year after being created by lawmakers, Florida Health Choices has yet to result in the sale of [...]
Six Things I Learned About the XBox 360
You’d think that, being a Videogame Journalist Extraordinaire and All-Around Cool Guy (it says so on my personal Web site, so you know it must be true), I would know everything about the Xbox 360. You’d be wrong. True, I can rattle off a selection of the system’s hit games, its pros and cons versus [...]
Harwell a Gentleman in Booth and Life
It was late summer, a baseball night, and in downtown Detroit, the Tigers were playing. Miles away, sitting in his chair, Ernie Harwell wanted some ice cream. “How about you?” he asked me. I said sure, and he turned to his beautiful wife of 68 years and said, “Lulu, let’s have some butter pecan ice [...]
Bird Deaths Soar at Wind Farms
For years, a huge wind farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley was slaughtering thousands of birds, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks and burrowing owls. The raptors would get sliced up by the blades on the roughly 5,400 turbines in Altamont Pass, or electrocuted by the wind farm’s power lines. Scientists, wildlife agencies and turbine experts [...]
Lenders Clamp Down, Credit Scores Fall
Long after the economy recovers, millions of Americans will be left with a grim legacy of the recession: damaged credit scores, the three-digit ratings that help determine consumers’ ability to get loans and other types of credit. Even though some consumers have seen their credit scores improve as they trim their debt, others have seen [...]
Tots Need Booster for Swine Flu Shot
One swine flu shot will protect most children 10 and older, and younger kids probably will need two shots three weeks apart, according to a study released Monday. The findings, from the first federally funded study in children of the new H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine show that one shot of the new vaccine provides [...]
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