July 21, 2010 – Here’s the skinny on what’s happening on the streets of New York. Robert Burck has invested more than ten years of his life building his brand as New York’s Naked Cowboy.
He’s been wearing only a cowboy hat and briefs as he’s stood on corners strumming his guitar and singing for [...]
July 21, 2010 – A severe lightning and thunderstorm hit Grand Teton National Park around midday on Wednesday leaving 3 different climbing parties with injuries.
All three parties were within 570 feet of the summit of the 13.770 foot high Grand Teton mountain. Helicopters had to come in to rescue 16 injured climbers. [...]
July 21, 2010 – On Tuesday the Senate voted 60 to 40 to restore emergency jobless benefits to the millions of Americans who have been unemployed for more than 6 months.
The full Senate is supposed to take a final vote on the bill today. Yet Senate Republicans are relentlessly filing motions that may delay [...]
July 20, 2010 – On Tuesday the Treasury Department said that approximately 530,000 borrowers fell out the Obama administration’s flagship program that was designed to rescue people who are at risk of foreclosure.
Close to 1.3 million homeowners had enrolled in the program since its inception in March 2009. More than 40% have already fallen [...]
July 20, 2010 – Recycled food oil is being dredged up from sewage drains and is being surreptitiously sold from the backdoors of restaurants in mainland China.
The waste oil is then being resold to be used as cooking oil in Chinese restaurants around the country.
Since China consumes more food oil than it produces it [...]
July 20, 2010 – In an attempt to ensure that the unemployment insurance benefits extension measure will be passed by the Senate the Democrats have cut the measure down to its bare essentials.
Millions of people who have been jobless for six months or more will receive average benefits of $309 per week if the Democrats [...]
July 19, 2010 – On Monday the National Association of Home Builders indicated that the monthly Builders’ sentiment reading sunk to its lowest level since March 2009.
Readings under 50 indicate negative sentiment about the housing market. The most recent reading was 14.
Interest rate and real estate analyst at Weiss Research, Mike Larson, said, “With [...]
July 19, 2010 – On Monday the results of a South African study were published on line that refers to a vaginal gel that contains an AIDS drug which cuts a woman’s chance of getting HIV from an infected partner.
The study, presented at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, showed that the gel cuts the [...]
July 19, 2010 – On Sunday’s CBS “Early Show” Carol Browner, White House energy advisor, said that there may be seepage from the BP oil well less than two miles from the site.
Late Sunday Coast Guard Am. Thad Allen, the Obama administration’s point man for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, sent BP a sharply [...]
July 19, 2010 – On Monday President Barack Obama asked Congress to pass an extension for unemployment benefits.
With the unemployment rate at 9.5%, the president criticized the Republicans for preventing passage of the bill which would have given a measure of relief to approximately 1.2 million jobless Americans.
And, referring to a bill that would expand [...]
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