07/19/11 Throughout his term, President Obama has repeatedly heralded clean energy and the industries that surround it as being a vital element of America's economic future. Many Republicans, meanwhile, have questioned environmental regulations that would promote the "clean economy" as job killers that unduly penalize mature industries more central to the US economy. But what is the reality of "clean ...
07/19/11 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the next front in partisan warfare.
07/19/11 Dr. Donald Syvrud, 87, a resident of Loudoun County for 25 years, died July 16, after a 25 year battle with Parkinson's Disease.
07/14/11 Metro Phoenix ranked 20th out of the top 100 metropolitan areas for the proportion of jobs connected with the ''green'' or ''clean'' economy last year, says the Brookings Institution in a report released today.
07/14/11 Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has been credited with supporting a "new energy economy" built around renewable energy in Colorado, but a new report suggests the state's clean economy still doesn't lead the country.
07/14/11 The Boston area, including Massachusetts and New Hampshire, employs almost 42,000 people in clean technology jobs, ranking the region eighth among metropolitan areas, according to a report by The Brookings Institution that looked at the economic impact of green initiatives.
07/14/11 Associated PressMayor Michael Bloomberg is giving five mayors millions of dollars in grants.ATLANTA -- New York's billionaire mayor is handing out a combined $24 million in grants to five colleagues around the country to fund programs addressing various issues in...
07/14/11 New York's billionaire mayor is handing out a combined $24 million in grants to five colleagues around the country to fund programs addressing various issues in their cities, from energy efficiency to handgun violence. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the grants Thursday as part of the Mayors Project, a new government innovation program at his charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies ...
07/14/11 NECEC President Peter Rothstein: Last July, a price on carbon still seemed like a possibility. Today, no one thinks comprehensive energy legislation will pass in 2011. And yet, I am in Washington, DC, with dozens of clean energy CEOs and regional leaders who believe that our presence in the capital is more important now than ever.
07/07/11 In an exclusive interview, Strobe Talbott, a key protagonist in resurrecting the United States-India relationship after India's nuclear tests in May 1998, talks about the US-India relations, Iran and the Pakistan situation to Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa.
07/06/11 Any officer involved in harbouring terrorists should be on our most-wanted list, says Bruce Riedel.
07/06/11 A 22-year school administrator from Florence has been hired as principal of Brookings Harbor High School. The Brookings Harbor School District Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to hire Larry Martindale. He replaces former principal Brian Wood, who resigned to take a job with another school district. Superintendent Brian Hodge said Martindale will be a good addition to the district ...
07/06/11 Republicans want to scuttle a new financial regulatory agency. Michael Tomasky talks with its would-be interim director.
07/06/11 If Obama and his Republic foes fail to reach a deal, then watch out: Who knows what could happen?
07/06/11 Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: For a little over an hour today, the commander-in-chief was also the tweeter-in-chief. President Obama took his latest step into new media, using Twitter to field public inquiries directly. In the hours before the town hall began, tweeted questions for the president were rolling in, 140 characters or less at a time. That's the format for Twitter, a micro ...
07/06/11 If you think a 65-inch high-definition TV qualifies as big, wait until you see what they're putting up in Sanford Stadium.
07/06/11 Sabina Volk Grove, 84, of Harbor, departed this world Sunday, July 3, 2011, in Brookings, in the presence of her beloved husband, children and grandchildren.
06/30/11 Fifteen high school teams converged on the Gold Beach High School campus to kick off the 18th Annual Football Camps for 2011.
06/30/11 A former Klamath County Sheriff's Deputy indicted on raping a woman at a vacation rental at the Whaleshead resort north of Brookings was arrested in Hood River on July 27.
06/29/11 Former Brookings resident Conner Kessler, 84, of Springfield, died June 15, 2011, of cancer. He was born Nov. 17, 1926, in Slater, Colo., to Homer and Grace Smith Kessler. | 
