Archive for January, 2010

The USA took a first step toward building a national high-speed-rail network when the Obama administration announced the winners of $8 billion in grants for rail-building projects Thursday. “We want to start looking deep into the 21st century,”...

The Jacksonville Sharks have added more than just a veteran quarterback with the announcement of Arena Football legend Aaron Garcia – they’ve struck fear in their opponents. Aaron Garcia (6ʼ1, 195 lbs), named one of the greatest Arena Football...

Florida was one of the biggest winners in the federal government’s high-speed rail sweepstakes as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made the trek to Tampa Thursday to announce the award of $1.25 billion in federal help to get the trains...

The U.S. Postal Service sent me a notice saying that it will be issuing a stamp honoring Bill Mauldin, the World War II cartoonist. It’s the first time any friend of mine has been honored with a stamp by the Postal Service (known to me as “the...

On the road to heaven, there are two signs. One says: Heaven. The other says: Panel Discussion on Heaven. All the Canadians follow the second sign. Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote a generation ago that this was the first joke about Canada she ever heard....

Apple’s iPad tablet computer will be available in March starting at $499, but it already has sparked a range of questions about how it will work. The touch-screen multimedia device uses the same operating system as Apple’s popular iPhone and...

WASHINGTON – Voters in New Mexico will encounter a familiar name on the June primary ballot for governor: Pete Domenici Jr., son of the state’s former senator Pete Domenici. The younger Domenici, an environmental lawyer, has no political experience,...

Super Bowl ads are widely noted but rarely long-remembered. But even if Tim Tebow’s already famous Super Bowl ad for Christian advocacy group Focus on the Family proves forgettably innocuous, it might leave a sorry legacy: Athletes get burned if...

INDIANAPOLIS – Peyton Manning thinks the outcome of Super Bowl XLIV might go a long way toward being decided before the game kicks off. “Having played in the game three years ago, I can speak to how important it is to prepare,” the Indianapolis...

Homeowners applying for mortgage modifications will soon have to provide paperwork upfront showing that they qualify. The new documentation process is aimed at getting homeowners more rapidly into permanent modifications with lower monthly payments. To...