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We cannot spend what we do not have — and we cannot enact something that will result in budget holes and tax increases next year or in the following years," she told the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Rell also renewed her call for a property-tax cap on cities and towns, an idea that lawmakers rejected last year. In response to a brutal murder last summer in Cheshire in which a woman and her two daughters were killed by two parolees, Rell proposed imposing a "three strikes" law for those convicted of three violent felony offenses. Rell also called for removing the possibility of a case review after 30 years. "Now it’s three strikes for violent felony convictions and you’re truly out." The Cheshire murder prompted the Legislature to convene a special session last month on criminal justice issues that led to new penalties for home invasions.
Lawn to Farm: Suburbia’s Silver Lining
I look at the empty countryside around our farm and can't help but wish it were as thick with people as when my grandparents made a living here. Until recently, though, the kindest name the rest of the world had for this wish was "nostalgia." Back then, leaving the farm made sense. The economy was growing on an energy-dense broth of cheap fossil fuels. The energy in those fuels replaced that from the muscles of farm people and their animals. Today one person can grow food for more than a hundred. A century ago, almost 40 percent of the United States population worked on farms. But with industrialization, millions of farm folk, their labor cheapened, headed to the city for better wages. That tide continued until fewer than 2 million farmers — less than 1 percent of the country's population — remain today.
Looking for solutions to the carbon conundrum
We would consume less energy to heat homes and business therefore less pollution.
. We would have a longer growing season, less crop failure, maybe two crops a year.,
. We would reduce imports of food products grown in the south, we can grow them in Canada.
. We could move crop production further north.
. We could finally open the North West Passage Posted 01/02/08 at 10:04 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Carmen collected
While a younger girl might cry off for something as lame as a broken fingernail, Dell'Orefice isn't going to let acheing feet and tiredness get in the way of an assignment. What soon becomes clear is that she feels highly privileged still to be doing a job that started with her first Vogue cover at the age of 15. She has had five more since, with recent career highlights including a catwalk appearance in Jean-Paul Gaultier's first show for Hermes in 2004 and John Galliano's Dior haute couture show in 2000. And to think that her sceptical mother dismissed her as an ungainly child with "ears like sedan chairs and feet like coffins". .
Five killed as gunman opens fire in Valentine’s Day massacre at US ...
Five people were shot dead and at least 13 injured after a gunman dressed in black opened fire and sprayed bullets around a lecture hall at an Illinois university before killing himself. The shooter burst from behind a screen during a geology lecture at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb shortly after 3pm and fired on the 160 students using a shotgun and two handguns. Students frantically scrambled over desks for cover as about 30 rounds were fired across the hall. University authorities said that the gunman, who has been identified as a student, but not from the university, then turned the gun on himself. Campus police refused to release his name. The incident took place in Cole Hall near the King Commons, a central meeting point on the 25,000student campus.
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