Miscellaneous

Port of Anchorage Overhaul to Cost $700 Million
Alaskans are questioning the $700M price tag for a huge expansion for the Port of Anchorage.  The Port of Anchorage is the main conduit for 75% of all goods sold statewide.  The present plan for the new Port calls for doubling the land mass of the Port by erecting a long steel wall in the bay and then filling in the area with gravel...

NY appeals court upholds Port Authority negligence verdict in 1993 WTC bombing
[JURIST] A New York appeals court has upheld [opinion text] a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent [JURIST report] in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center [BBC backgrounder] by Islamic radicals that killed six and injured 1,000...

Storm Preparation
As I write this, there is loud thunder clapping outside. I did not bring an umbrella to work. Obviously, I am not prepared today. And unfortunately, I'm too busy to put together a respectable Storm Preparation blog today...

Ashy storm petrel listing under further review
73 Federal Register 28080 (Thursday, May 15, 2008)(DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Fish and Wildlife Service; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Ashy Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa) as Threatened or ...

Robert Mondavi and the commercialisation of Leeuwin Estate
Naked ladies dancing on the tongue. This was my comment immediately on first tasting Art Series Chardonnay (http://www.leeuwinestate.com.au/index.php?page=84) at the cellar door of Leeuwin Estate in 2004...

Things that hack me off...
On the Ike Page at the Houston Chronicle there's a series of photographs documenting the storm and its aftermath day-by-day. Flipping through them I came across a picture of a husband and wife, cleaning out their house which was devastated by the storm...

Child Support
Finding the Noncustodial Parent ( Deadbeat Dads )

Evergreen
Wachovia, Settle Securities Allegations over Ultra Short Opportunities Fund

Clean Water Act
Lexington-Fayette County agrees to spend $250 million to fix its sanitary and storm sewer systems.