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From FORBES: Forbes put Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on its cover in 2011 for a story with the optimistic headline: “City of Hope.” The premise was that the city had hit rock bottom and was poised for a turnaround. “Right now, it’s all about survival,” Bing told Forbes. Two years...
From the UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL: President Barack Obama made his first call to Republican leaders in weeks to discuss $85 billion in looming U.S. spending cuts, the White House said. Obama spoke with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, about the so-called sequester, White...
From TIME: Bigfoot exists and there is DNA to prove it, or at least that’s what one scientific journal is claiming, according to the Huffington Post U.K. The study, published in the DeNovo Scientific Journal is a culmination of lead researcher Melba Ketchum’s five years studyingalleged samples of the Sasquatch’s...
From CNS NEWS: President Barack Obama called Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at approximately 10 p.m. on the night of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told CNSNews.com. That was more than six hours after the attacks started, more...
From AZCENTRAL: Twice burned, Republicans are treading carefully around tea party groups as they pursue a Senate majority that slipped through their fingers in 2010 and 2012. “You’d have to be an idiot not to prepare” for primary election challenges from the right, no matter the state, says Rob Jesmer,...
From TIME: Oscar statuettes may not be the only gold items viewers will be watching out for at the Academy Awards this Sunday. Grey Poupon, the upscale mustard brand, has released a trailer for a new ad titled “Pardon Me” — an extended version of its classic 1981 commercial...
From the SEATTLE PI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to relieve crowded Wi-Fi networks that people use in hotels, airports and other public places by increasing available bandwidth for unlicensed consumer devices. As any of us can attest, when a lot of people use a wireless network, speed goes...
From the DENVER POST Office Depot and OfficeMax are being collated. The retailers said Wednesday they have agreed to combine in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion that would transform the office-supply retail sector by helping the No. 2 and...
From the CABLE: Forty international humanitarian organizations are warning that the impending arbitrary budget cuts known as the “sequester” will have dire consequences for people in crisis situations in the world’s most conflict-affected areas. The across-the-board budget cuts set to go into effect March 2 would force the State Department...
From the BOSTON GLOBE: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the ‘‘vast majority’’ of the Defense Department’s 800,000 civilian workers. They would lose one day of work per week,...
