True to the American manner of meeting challenges and desiring to overcome them, a recent Time magazine cover led off with the title “How to Win The War On Global Warming.”

ATLANTA – A diverse coalition of transit riders, employees, and other advocates released a new report Tuesday, April 29, 2008, outlining a vision for regional transit in Atlanta from the perspective of riders who depend on transit.

During his recent visit to the U.S., Pope Benedict's crusade against child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy garnered much approving ink.

The recent election of former Bishop Fernando Lugo as President of Paraguay poses a sticky dilemma for the Vatican and underscores the hostile political environment facing incoming Pope Benedict XVI in South America.

Caught up in a series of scandals that erased what little credibility it had on the Cuba issue, the Bush administration, which until now trusted that its Cuban-American mercenaries would succeed in destabilizing the country, has placed its hopes in the none-too-clean hands of an astute Czech, a fitting student of its spy services.

A report by a private foundation released Apr. 29 revealed that rising family health insurance premiums have eaten into more than half of what little income gains working households have seen in recent years. Between 2001 and 2005, the cost of the portion of family health insurance premiums paid for by workers who get their insurance through their job has risen 30 percent, while their incomes on average have grown only 3 percent.

You know environmental consciousness has really taken hold when couples start to worry about whether their weddings will be green enough. But more and more people who care deeply about the planet view getting married as a chance to show off their values.

John McCain visited Miami Children's Hospital April 28 where he no doubt scared some babies while attempting to kiss them. His main purpose for being there was to give an impression that he understands the health care issue, but he managed only to underscore the fact that he has no plan to solve America's health care crisis.

Aware of the significance of the recent election, the four main Nepalese parties have stepped up efforts to define the new Constitution and the future government of this budding federal democratic republic.

Whereas the war in Iraq is immoral, unwanted, and unnecessary,

Whereas this unjust war is opposed by the great majority of Americans & Vermonters, the bulk of organized labor, and by thousands of enlisted military personal, ...

It was difficult for 87-year-old Jamil Khader to discover that nearly all of the 1,400 olive trees his extended family planted in February had suddenly gone missing, having been uprooted and stolen.

On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't have legal immigration status in the U.S.

For a while now, I have been thinking about what George W. Bush signifies from a socio-political perspective. Looking at the world from the time of the ‘Big Bang’ of September 11th, 2001, until today almost seven years later, one can clearly observe how monstrous our human interaction has become.

Clean and green wind energy is the new darling of alternative energy developers, and the U.S. industry has been surging the past three years, especially as developers take advantage of government incentives.

"Homelessness in Vancouver has reached crisis levels," said COPE Councillor David Cadman, after the latest homeless count found more than 1500 people are living on Vancouver streets.