And although Boulder may have one city council member who's a stoner percentage-wise that's probably not representative of the stoner population; it should be five council members it also has a governing body that passed one of the most progressive global warming policies in the country. And although Boulder may have one city council member who's a stoner percentage-wise that's probably not representative of the stoner population; it should be five council members it also has a governing...

This report [ucsusa.org] from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how Milloy, headed a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which had been covertly created by the tobacco company Philip Morris in 1993 to manufacture uncertainty about the health hazards posed by secondhand smoke. This report [ucsusa.org] from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how Milloy, headed a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition,...

Local aboriginal leaders are satisfied that their concerns about a controversial poster have been fairly received by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. EST each day and includes stories and columns from the day's print edition of the Sun. It included a "cartoonish" drawing of a totem pole. Nobody was playing the blame game. Ann Marie McQueen's wry look at pop culture, celebrities, cocktails and more. The poster promoting an Aboriginal Awareness Week event, which was circulated at...

Its seemingly an overcrowding of the marketplace for a city of just over 100,000 people (and about 330,000 in Charleston County) that is, until you realize that tourism is the economic engine that drives Charleston. Charlestons recruitment of the Art Institute is a particularly vivid example of the link that civic and state officials see between postsecondary education and local economic development, and it shows the extent to which one citys leaders went to keep that higher education...

Navy's plan to build an airfield in rural North Carolina would disrupt the ecology of migratory birds, destroy the economy of a small town, and possibly put pilots in danger. Why they want to build it, where they want to build it, and how they want to build it are so wrong on so many levels that it s hard to know where to start. And what land have they chosen? Fifty square miles in the middle of fertile wheat- and vegetable-producing North Carolina right next to a bird sanctuary to which...