by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
A record 89,967,000 Americans were not in the labor force in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is an increase of 663,000 from the 89,304,000 Americans who were not in the labor force in February. Since President Barack Obama was first...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A Pittsburgh-area solar energy company that received more than $10 million as part of the federal stimulus is asking a federal judge to allow it to file bankruptcy. Ten former employees at the Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp plant have petitioned a federal judge for severance...
by Jane Richey | Apr 4, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $2.1 million grant over five years for a research project titled, “Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think.” The research project is designed to study how animals think and to promote “the evolutionary link between...
by Jane Richey | Apr 4, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
As part of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Collins Inc. of Clinton, Iowa has agreed to a “re-lamping” of its facility with low-mercury fixtures at a projected cost of $76,952. The re-lamping will be a greater expense than the civil penalty...
by Jane Richey | Apr 4, 2013 | Politics
A Wisconsin school district has launched an investigation into accusations that teachers have bullied and harassed a politically active conservative student. Benji Backer, a 15-year-old student at Appleton North High School in Appleton, told Fox News that he’s been...
