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Recent weather proves climate crisis, Gore says at Wayne State - Detroit Free Press

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:11:55 -0700

Detroit Free Press - Oct. 14 - Recent weather proves climate crisis, Gore says at Wayne StateDetroit Free PressReacting to a cool-off in concern over global warming, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change. Gore, speaking Thursday in ...Nobel prize-winning scientist giving talkBCLocalNewsall 17 news articles »

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In House GOP budget plan, the rich get richer

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Detroit Free Press - Apr. 24 (Editorial) - The long-term budget plan approved earlier this month in the U.S. House of Representatives would give new succor to the most well-off Americans.

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Feds fine Abercrombie & Fitch $1M for violating immigration law

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Detroit Free Press - By Greta Guest - Sep. 28 (News) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Detroit said today it had levied one of its largest fines -- $1 million -- against clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch for violations of federal immigration law at its Michigan stores.

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Nobody needs an office decorated with greed

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Detroit Free Press - By Mitch Albom - Feb. 01 (Opinion) - It was the wastebasket. That did it for me. No, you can't justify $87,000 for a rug and you can't justify $35,000 for a commode -- yes, a commode -- but you really, really can't explain $1,400 for a wastebasket. Made out of parchment. Who buys a wastebasket that can catch fire faster than the trash inside it?

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For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Detroit Free Press - By Rochelle Riley - Nov. 26 (Opinion) - Congress is running out of time to finally make the Bush administration own up to its actions for eight years. If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171 pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had – and their dogs.

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John Sidney McCain

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:18:43 -0700

Detroit Free Press - Jun. 08 (Special Report) - McCain was named for his father and grandfather. He attended the Episcopal High School boarding school in Alexandria, Va. In 1954, he entered the Naval Academy. In July 1967, McCain, then a naval aviator, survived a fiery disaster on the USS Forrestal that killed 134 of his shipmates and nearly sank the aircraft carrier in waters off North Vietnam. That October, his A4 Skyhawk attack bomber was shot down over North Vietnam. He endured severe brutality as a prisoner of war for more than five years. After his return and a divorce from his first wife, he relocated to Arizona, remarried and worked for the company of his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, a beer wholesaler and distributor. He ran for the U.S. House in 1982, served two terms and was elected to the Senate in 1986.

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State is out of money to clean up remaining toxic sites

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Detroit Free Press - By Tina Lam - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The state still has more than 5,000 so-called orphan sites, those that are contaminated but where there is no viable owner to pick up cleanup costs. When owners can be found, the state forces them to pay. The DEQ is working on cleanups at 450 sites now, but may have to shut them down by the end of the year and lay off 80 to 125 employees unless a new funding source is found.

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Blackwater investigation eyes smuggling claims

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:06:00 -0700

Detroit Free Press - Sep. 22 (News Report) - The company, which guards the U.S. ambassador and other State Department personnel in Iraq, had its license to operate suspended this week after Sunday's shooting in Baghdad. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said he favors barring the company permanently, calling the shooting "cold-blooded." Its guards apparently were back working Friday in Baghdad as U.S. diplomats resumed limited trips outside the Green Zone after a three-day hiatus.

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Backer of tougher fuel economy standards seeks compromise

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:22:53 -0700

Detroit Free Press - By Justin Hyde - Jun. 20 (News Report) - Wrestling over fuel economy increases threatened to derail energy legislation in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, as backers of a plan to set a 35 mile-per-gallon standard by 2020 said they were looking for compromise with automakers and their supporters. Such a compromise could complicate matters for Detroit's automakers, which have long fought congressional proposals to raise fuel efficiency standards and declined to back any specific increase until this year to avoid being drawn into such bargaining.

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