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First Day of Spring?
I was campaigning last week for my candidate in the Virginia presidential primary and it was frigid, icy cold. Today, one week later, it...
Loss of Leg Doesn’t Stop Police Cadet from Achieving Dream (Video)
Adam Griggel says even after he lost his leg, he was determined to become a Wisconsin police officer. Now as a police cadet...
Firefighters Praised for Icy Dog Rescue
"Let other folks retire to warm climates," said a Wisconsin resident whose poodle was rescued, after it had fallen through the ice, by a...
Sailors Raise Cash and Beer Mugs for Charity
This weekend marks the annual intersection of sailing, beer drinking and charitable giving, a mix more harmonious because it is set on the...
Pint A Day Keeps the Doctor Away (if it’s Guiness!)
"A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of...
Web Sites Provide Big Savings on College Textbooks
Because the average first-year college student today spends over $900 on textbooks, Web sites have sprung up offering price-comparison tools that help save 50...
Hybrid-Fest: It’s Electric (Video)
The hybrid car show in Madison, Wisconsin, highlights the growing trend of hybrid car ownership and is the largest convention for people with vehicles...
Soldiers Want To Rescue 24 Iraqi Orphan Boys
You may have heard some of the news coverage in the past few weeks about an Iraqi orphanage for boys with cerebral palsy and...
Bald Eagle Soars Off Endangered List: 11,000 Pairs From Only 417
In one of the world's greatest conservation success stories, bald eagle populations have climbed from a dismal count of just 417 nesting pairs in...
NPR Host and Media Critic, Geri Weis-Corbley?
EDITOR'S BLOG - I found out last night I was in the top seven percent in audience voting in the NPR Talent Quest...
Happiness on Your License Plate
Caroline Miller, besides being a coach and motivational speaker, is also known as “the license plate lady” to her children's friends who have become...
Ton of Pharmaceuticals Kept Out of Michigan Rivers (Earth Day Follow-Up)
Pharmaceuticals in the water supply likely are responsible for crises of sexual mutation in fish found in the Potomac River and deformed frogs in...
‘Getting Dirty’ May Help Depressed
"People who suffer from depression could benefit from getting "dirty," according to new research. Bacteria found in soil has the same uplifting effects as...
Hoping to Be the Greenest Skyscraper
"If you don't build green, you're building obsolete." Almost everything about the new Bank of America skyscraper in New York is environmentally...
Bank of America Launches $20 Billion Environmental Initiative
America's largest retail bank announced this week they will start to spend billions on projects that help sustain the earth, like offering commercial loans...
Amazing Snow Sculptures Compete in Contest
Winners have been crowned, and hot chocolate dispersed, in the 2007 Winterfest Snow Sculpting contest in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. First place was...
Homegrown Power a Fix for Energy Crunch and Global Warming
Homegrown electricity could be one ingredient used to combat the 21st century’s expected energy crunch, easing the load on electrical grids with a system...
States Take the Lead on Health Care Reform
Massachusetts has accomplished the improbable: It got Democrats and Republicans to agree on how to provide nearly every resident with health insurance. And it...
New 2007 Laws Protect Consumers from ID Theft and Citizens’ Rights
State Lawmakers have been busy and their new laws for 2007 are mostly good news for consumers, common citizens and people struggling to make...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: #3 – Species Recovery
Environmentalists Heartened by Stunning Finds of Species, Coral, and Recovery of Many Endangered • Numerous hopeful stories in 2006 showed that endangered...