U.S. Deputy Secretary of State to visit China in March
People's Daily Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:32 PM PST
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg will visit China early next month, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday. Steinberg and Jeffrey Bader, senior director for Asian affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, will pay the visit from March 2 to 4 to "exchange opinions with the Chinese side over matters related to China-U.S. relations," spokesman Qin Gang said in a ... |
Death of teacher reveals lurking danger of stalkers
KING5 Seattle Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:30 PM PST
TACOMA, Wash. - The colors of a growing memorial pay homage to a life lost during one of the darkest days in Harlan Reed’s life. “I'm never going to be the same again. those people I loved so much," he said. Reed had known Jennifer Paulson and her killer Jed Ryan Waits for 10 years. They all worked together in the cafeteria at Seattle Pacific University. Waits gunned down Paulson on Friday as ... |
Buffett: Execs Should Pay Price For Risky Bets
NPR Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:26 PM PST
Billionaire Warren Buffett, in his annual letter to shareholders, sternly urged companies to develop harsh penalties for executives who get into trouble with risky investments. |
Nevada Budget Talks Stretch to Day 5
KOLO 8 Reno Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:21 PM PST
Nevada lawmakers and Gov. Jim Gibbons continued closed door budget negotiations Saturday, trying to reconcile limiting cuts to public schools and higher education with new ways to pay for it and still plug a nearly $900 million budget shortfall. |
Regulator: No local phone shutoffs with partial payment in D.C.
The Washington DC Examiner Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:15 PM PST
Land-line telephone customers in the District who pay only enough of their monthly bill to cover local service should not lose that service, and critical access to 911, if other phone charges go unpaid, D.C.'s utility regulator has ruled. |
Pay-by-cell parking coming to White Plains
The Journal News Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:09 PM PST
WHITE PLAINS â€" You're at dinner on Mamaroneck Avenue and just got a text message from your parking meter that time is running out. |
Kohl Critical Of NBC Online Olympic Coverage
CBS 2 Los Angeles Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:04 PM PST
A Democratic senator criticized NBC on Friday for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it unfair and restrictive. Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, wrote NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker to complain about an NBC policy that he said appears to restrict some online access to people who subscribe to a pay ... |
OCEANSIDE: City should press for better trash deal, report says
North County Times Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:03 PM PST
A private consultant hired by the city is recommending thatOceanside hold out for a better deal from Waste Management of NorthCounty, which has offered to pay the city at least $1 million ayear if the city will extend its trash contract with the companyfor three years. |
Insurance Bonuses: Arguing For Tontines
NPR Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:57 PM PST
People between the ages of 19 and 29 make up a third of all uninsured Americans under retirement age. And for many of them, that's a choice. But that puts a strain on the health-care system. Host Guy Raz talks to Tom Baker, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who's proposing a 19th-century solution to this very 21st-century problem: tontines. The health insurance policies would pay a cash ... |
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