WASHINGTON - On a collision course over spending, House Republicans advanced a sweeping, $61 billion package of budget reductions on Tuesday despite a swift veto threat and a warning from President Barack Obama against unwise cuts "that could endanger the recovery. Congressional Democrats said the Republican cuts would reduce U.S. employment rather than add to it and leapt to criticize when House Speaker John Boehner said "so be it" if jobs are lost among the ranks of federal employees.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - Rough and rocky, Johnson Valley is considered the perfect place to test the mettle of men and their machines. An estimated 200,000 people a year flock to the desert valley for recreational pursuits: hiking, camping, rock-hounding, star-gazing and a new sport called "geocaching," a treasure hunt using GPS technology. Moviemakers use the desert floor for chase scenes.
Lars Von Trier's new film "Melancholia" is unforgettable. But then so was "Antichrist," his last film. In that one, Charlotte Gainsbourg played an angry wife who maimed her husband's genitalia and caused him to ejaculate blood. You don't forget a thing like that though I have no doubt it contributed mightily to its not playing here. The Danish director's "Melancholia" had no such impediment, but I can still imagine the film causing people as much anger as Terrence Malick's masterpiece "The Tree of Life" and for similar reasons. Just as "The Tree of Life" was cinematic poetry rather than conventional cinematic narrative (leading viewers who expected the latter to think a condescending trick was being played on them), "Melancholia" represents a new kind of science-fiction tale: ...
By Mark Zaretsky Register Staff mzaretsky@nhregister.com BRANFORD -- Thimble Islands residents, having bit the bullet and voted to form their own special tax district to support the Thimble Islands ferry service, are questioning what some call a "sweetheart deal" that grants three tour boat operators space at the Town Dock, free street parking for customers and exclusive rights to carry sightseers for an annual payment of just $500.
Good fences make good neighbors." No matter how well you get along with the neighbor next door, it's good to know where his property ends, and yours begins. And good fences are essential for more than just real estate; other areas of the law depend on laying down clear, enforceable boundaries between one company's intangible "property line" and another's. Perhaps the best example of this is the communications spectrum. For more than 80 years, the Federal Communications Commission (and its predecessor, the Federal Radio Commission) has fixed the boundaries between users' respective shares of the spectrum, and policed the spectrum to ensure that the users have obeyed those "fences.
To a newcomer, it is chaos with sequined hot pants and clever nicknames. A pack of women are skating around the rink in helmets, wrist guards, knee and elbow pads - and more than a few of them in fishnet stockings and sparkling short shorts. The backs of their shirts say SugarNSpice, Jenna Von Fury, Bonesaw and Kelly Cut Throat, to name a few.
The threat of worsening traffic jams won't make hiking the state's 14.5¢-a-gallon gas tax any easier, particularly with the price of a gallon of regular still hovering near $3 a gallon. "It's September.
With the last weekend of the baseball season upon us, there's only one question for SoCal baseball fens as the postseason takes shape; What's the chance of a Freeway World Series between the Dodgers and Angels? He could be a similar weapon that current Angels closer Frankie Rodriguez was in 2002 when he served as a lights-out set-up man during the team's World Series run. While [Cory Wade] doesn't have K-Rod's speed, his great control makes him a valuable asset less likely to make mistakes. Oh wait, my mistake. Turns out they've still been churning out runs at a feverish pace and running into October at full speed. If you're looking for a catalyst, look no further than outfielder Garret Anderson. Proving that last year's second half barrage was no fluke, Anderson is batting .422 this mo...
The US' 15,000 air traffic controllers are among the highest paid civil servants, some earning more than the $165,200 brought in by most members of Congress. A campaign to bring down sky-high operating costs has left the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at odds with the controllers' union and the 7,000 unionized workers who maintain and inspect the high-tech tools controllers use. Congress had three choices in early May: It could settle the National Air Traffic Controllers Association dispute, do nothing and let FAA impose its contract, or adopt a pair of bills known as the 2006 FAA Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act. The proposed legislation would bump all disputes into binding arbitration with a third party if Congress failed to act.
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