Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy (California Studies in Food & Culture)
New York Post (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
MELVILLE, L.I. — Police in Suffolk County say a California woman took a cab from Manhattan to Long Island and then pepper-sprayed the driver instead of paying the fare. The incident started yesterday when the 22-year-old woman from Redwood City, Cal...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Police in Suffolk County say a California woman took a cab from Manhattan to Long Island and then pepper-sprayed the driver instead of paying the fare.
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
We can't walk from one desk to the other over here in SSP World Headquarters without tripping over another new poll that we haven't written up yet. Let's take care of 'em in a roundup. All polls must go! AZ-Gov/Sen : Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer is not only imperiled in the general election, she's also extremely vulnerable to a primary challenge, according to PPP. State Treasurer Dean Martin leads Brewer...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
The billionaire former CEO of eBay and Mitt Romney acolyte Meg Whitman wants to be Governor of California. One must wonder why given her heretofore lack of interest in public affairs. A review by the Sacramento Bee found billionaire Meg regularly skipped elections in California and several other states where she lived and worked. There's simply no trace of Meg in voter registration logs. The review...
eFoodAlert.com (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals and allergy alerts. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert. United States Allergy Alert: Better Buns Inc. recalls its 22 oz package of Europa Baking Company brand 6 pack Knot Rolls because they may contain undeclared eggs....
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
abecedarian \ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn\, noun: One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet. Arranged alphabetically. Rudimentary; elementary. Abecedarian derives from Latin abecedarius, from the first four letters of the alphabet. amscray Pig latin for "scram," which means "leave." (Mom and Dad...
Millionaire Now! (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
While some folks cheer recently rising home prices, there is a price to pay: San Francisco County is a very challenging place to pay for a home! San Francisco was the 2nd least affordable housing market in the nation in the second quarter. That’s according to economists at the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Bank . This group measures local real estate and economic conditions...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Source: LexisNexis, August 8-10, 2009. Lexis ID and Password Required for Online Access: 1. The Associated Press State & Local Wire , August 9, 2009 Sunday 11:20 PM GMT, , STATE AND REGIONAL, 101 words, Police: Buffalo man threatened to burn down home, BUFFALO N.Y. ... Attempted Arson; Damages, Crime, Travel,Legal, Law NEW YORK, USA (94%) 2. The Associated Press State & Local Wire , August...
DANGERDEMOCRAT (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Michael Giberson In the news, many stories about the debut of a power system at Gills Onion that will produce electricity from onion-based biogas. The topic seems to have spurred extra effort to insert jokes into headlines (Don’t cry for me, California; Energy, layer by layer; From The Onion … No, Not That One), but the [...]
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Shiny purses made of upcycled candy wrappers, gorgeous handmade journals, intricate baskets woven from telephone wires. All of these are eco-friendly, handmade items that were on display at the California Gift Show, where buyers milled about deciding what gift-worthy items to carry in their stores. This year, an entire section of the show was dedicated [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's rethinking a surcharge on the wealthy to pay for healthcare to include only families making $1 million or more. The California Democrat also told Politico she would push to squeeze more savings from the medical industry than it already gave under agreements reached with the U.S. Senate and the White House. Her reconsideration...
Free Exchange (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
California and Ireland struggle to obtain federal support
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Even as moonbattery pulls our country under, belief in the traditional American values of liberty and self-reliance have created a business-friendly environment allowing Texas to buck the economic gloom. The Economist recently did an article comparing the Lone Star State...
Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Ed St. Germain, who launched the AmericanRevolution.org website in 1999, died early this month at the age of sixty-three. St. Germain was a U.S. Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, and later a Deputy District Attorney in California. Researching American life in the eighteenth century was his longtime passion. St. Germain was early to recognize the world wide web as a way for historians, especially amateur...
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