| St. Philip rectory set for demolition
With a 103-year-old Victorian turret jutting up on its left corner, the fenced-in parcel stands as a long-ago contrast to the steady stream of cars careening past.
See the full story Saturday in the Enquirer and at battlecreekenquirer.com. .
Fayette County man drops out of 9th District race
A Fayette County Democrat who said he was upset with U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's voting record has decided not to challenge him for the 9th District seat and instead is endorsing the incumbent.Robert "Ted" Pritchard, 56, Fairchance, said Tuesday that he has to withdraw from the race because of health and personal issues. He said he spoke with Shuster and will be supporting him, not his would-be Democratic primary challenger, Tony Barr, of Blair County.
When he announced his candidacy at the end on January, Pritchard said he was upset that the 47-year-old Republican congressmen voted against the Clean Air Act and a minimum wage increase. He also said Shuster should have introduced legislation to combat the energy crisis.After speaking with the lawmaker, Pritchard said he changed his mind."Personally (Shuster and I) see eye to eye on things," he said.
Fallen Bainbridge champ still hanging around gym
Marie Welsh spun through the air, her body completing a flip with 2 1/2 twists before her feet landed solidly on the floor mat. Most of the Bainbridge High junior's body stopped twisting when her feet hit the mat. Her left knee was the exception. There was no audible pop, no exclamations of pain. Only a "mushy" feeling around her swollen knee signaled the torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus that brought Welsh's precocious gymnastics career to an equally precocious halt last May. The fear of reinjuring the knee never subsided. When she turned out for Bainbridge's first practice of the season in November, she would not even let herself jump from the low beam onto the floor. "I decided I wasn't going to do gymnastics because I just didn't want to reinjure it and go through that again," Welsh said.
Archives for: July 2007
Brayton Point (on right) is one of the biggest electricity producers in Massachusetts. But each year, its smokestacks release several million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — inefficient generators and high-carbon coal fuel make it one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the Northeast... Even among politicians who are endorsing action to combat global warming, there are varying degrees of commitment, notes Sue Reid, a staff attorney at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. She pointed to Sen. Edward Kennedy and Congressman William Delahunt's opposition to the proposed Cape Wind project off Cape Cod as an example of how political positions on climate change can be fickle... Read the rest of this Standard-Times article here. .
Iveco LMV: Dangerous World
"You will be entering a world we seldom show to anybody," said the Fiat Group PR. How secret? Well, Iveco's British and Italian PR bosses admitted that they had never set foot in the headquarters of their shadowy military vehicles division. And the degree of security became even more evident when, after a slight wrong turn, our car was stopped by the very formal Carabinieri, who demanded to see our credentials, which they cross-checked with the ex-police factory security. When we did arrive, our passports were taken and the security police banned photographer Andrew Crowley from taking pictures of anything at all - strangers aren't warmly welcomed round here. .
Cyclist, truck collide near OHSU
Twenty five years ago I was an avid bicycle enthusiast and rider. I realized how dangerous it is to mix cars and bikes and gave up bicycle riding on the public streets. It is just not worth the risk. Proponents of bicycles as a major transportation choice are deluding themselves. How many of our fine City workers go about their daily business on bicycles? Save for a few bike cops and the like, the rest of them use motor vehicles to conduct business. The idea that the rest of us are somehow supposed to commute to work on bicycles is irrational thinking. Painting boxes and lines on the roadways just encourages more people to use this dangerous and inefficient form of transportation and does not provide enough safety. Bicycles are regressive, not progressive. Doing the wrong thing harder never works.
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