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APNewsBreak: Ohio making more money available next year for upgrading water treatment plants

08/07/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio – Ohio will make more money available next year for cities planning to fix their drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, continuing a program rolled out nearly a year ago after toxins from Lake Erie contaminated Toledo’s water…

Hillary Clinton wants to take us back to yesterday, not the future

06/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
In her reintroduction speech on Roosevelt Island in New York last Saturday, Hillary Clinton hit all the boilerplate liberal Democrat notes: The New Deal, big government, soak the rich, evil Wall Street … you know the song because the music…

Friday News Roundup: June 12, 2015

06/12/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE – In this June 10, 2015 file photo, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, left, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo listen during a news conference in front of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., where David Sweat and Richard…

Martin O’Malley Set to Throw His Hat in Ring for White House

05/29/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Martin O’Malley attends the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Washington. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley set to announce he is running for President tomorrow…

Washington state’s ObamaCare exchange faces funding shortfall

03/12/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange call center in Spokane is so busy that staffing has been quadrupled, with the center receiving up to 10,000 calls a day. The problem is not enough of those callers are actually signing up for…

Oahu combines big city buzz, history and rural beauty

12/22/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Oahu has the buzz and attractions of a major city combined with solace and scenic beauty just a short drive away. (George Hobica) Although some visitors head straight for other islands when visiting Hawaii, thinking they’ve done and seen it…

University of Rhode Island removes Gruber video after it goes viral

11/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Economist Jonathan Gruber speaks at a conference of the Workers Compensation Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, March 12, 2014. Dr. Gruber is a professor at MIT and the architect of the healthcare reform laws in Massachusetts and the American Affordable…

$40G per bird? California cormorants refuse to budge from bridge being demolished

11/10/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Now that a crucial section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been replaced by a new $6.4 billion span, nobody needs it anymore — nobody except about 800 birds who call the decrepit, 78-year-old segment home. The double-crested cormorants…

Drinking clouds: Princeton grad turns fog into water

05/29/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
In October 2012 Chris Janusis was on Staten Island when superstorm Sandy flooded roadways and flattened homes. But he says the longest-lasting effect has been water contamination. “I have huge concerns,” he said recently as he opened the spigot at…

150 years later, Union sailors from USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

03/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The bodies were found when the USS Monitor’s rusty gun turret was raised from the ocean floor. ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a…