(The Center Square) – As electricity demand surges amid the expansion of data centers and advanced manufacturing, a free-market think tank convened energy experts Wednesday to debate whether traditional utilities, competitive electricity markets or some combination of the two offer the best path toward delivering reliable, affordable power to Americans.
(The Center Square) – U.S. demand for gasoline, diesel, and other transportation fuels dropped sharply last week, according to federal data released Thursday, continuing a months-long trend of falling domestic consumption as record-high retail prices squeeze consumer pocketbooks and strain the trucking industry.
The bottom of the cherry market has fallen out with a bountiful harvest across the Northwest, which means that smaller fruit cannot be sold. That bad news has been delivered by Jeff Heater, field man for The Dalles Fruit Company, to about 25 cherry growers in Wasco and Hood River counties who process crops at the packing plant, located in Dallesport.
Our nation as we have known it is slipping away as more and more of the Kingmakers (people in control and with their own agenda) make decisions that are at odds with “We the people.”
Generating, accessing and protecting public/private records can accurately be described as some of the most potent issues of our age. It is a topic loaded with such significance that smart educators will begin training students about it as early as grade school — it is that essential to successful life.
I would like everyone in the community to know that starting Nov. 1, 2013, supplemental nutritional benefits will be cut for everyone who receives them. The cuts will range from $11 for a single person per month, which is $121 per year to $36 per month for a family of four, which adds up to $396 per year.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days — cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak for a simple headscarf.
