Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown have agreed to participate in a live broadcast debate at the University of California, Davis, in September. The event is sponsored by Capital Public Radio, KCRA-TV Sacramento, The Sacramento Bee and UC Davis. The debate is scheduled to be held on Sept. 28. It will be the first [...]
Two years removed from an electoral wave created by President Barack Obama that swept Democrats into wide Congressional majorities, the chief executive’s numbers have faltered badly in a number of contested states — raising concerns that he could be a drag on Democratic candidates this fall. A new independent poll in Missouri paints a grim [...]
Glenn Beck, the conservative radio and TV host and author, tearfully announced that he’s losing his eyesight because of a disease called macular dystrophy, which affects the central vision. Beck may never fully go blind. But as the degenerative disease progresses, he may lose the ability to read, recognize faces, drive and make out other fine details. Macular [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will call on Republican lawmakers to stop blocking an extension of unemployment benefits as the Senate prepares to take up the issue again this week. A White House official says Obama will have “strong words” for Republicans when he delivers remarks Monday in the Rose Garden. Obama will argue that [...]
“A liability carrier that lost its bid to refuse to defend claims over a mercury-contaminated day care center must pay its insureds $208,000 in legal fees. The $208,748 award, ordered Tuesday by US District Judge Jerome Simandle, reflects a 35 percent enhancement on a $153,750 lodestar, based largely on the risk that the insureds’ lawyer, [...]
July 12 – BP Plc may stop the flow of crude from its leaking Gulf of Mexico well, source of the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, beginning with a pressure test today. BP plans to bolt a 40-foot (12-meter) stack of valves atop the well today and stop the flow for 48 hours as [...]
Kenneth R. Feinberg is the $20 billion man with an open-ended checkbook full of BP’s money. Just as jaw-dropping as the sum is the power he has to spend it: Mr. Feinberg will not only decide who is paid for losses from the gulf oil spill, and how much, he also gets to pick the [...]
So much for progress. Yesterday BP says it collected 27,000 barrels of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, up from 26,000 on Monday. But on Wednesday morning one of BP’s robot submarines crashed into the Top Hat device that was siphoning off some 18,000 barrels a day, knocking it off. A secondary collection device continues [...]
Chrysler Group LLC, which is now 10 percent government-owned, spent nearly $591,000 on lobbying in the first quarter, mainly on funding for the development of advanced technology vehicles and legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. Chrysler lobbied members of Congress on a measure that would require the U.S. Postal Service to buy electric vehicles. [...]
Brussels June 15 – The European Union’s executive took a further step on Tuesday to encourage the widespread use of electric vehicles, proposing the European Union become complaint with an existing set of common safety standards. The EU’s 27 governments should protect their 500 million citizens by adopting rules for electric vehicles from the United [...]