Rail shippers disparage CORP service (The World)
The Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad and Oregon International Port of Coos Bay are in a tussle over the Coos Bay rail line. One of the flash points is the 17 miles still open at the east end of the tracks.
Sustainability: Bridge to Tomorrow (New America Media)
The United Nations 2005 Millennium Ecological Assessment reported that a rising human population has polluted or over-exploited two-thirds of the ecological systems on which life depends.
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they ...
Kansas companies put out of business by high fuel costs (The Wichita Eagle)
After more than 40 years in the business, Mike Ross closed his Salina trucking company on July 1. Tony Gaston cut his Hutchinson fleet from 50 to 26 trucks. Now he is looking at laying off some office staff. Mike Fritch of Burrton went from three trucks to one. Even then, he says, it's touch and go. "It's fuel costs," Fritch said. "Cash flow disappears and fuel costs keep going up. "You have ...
