> The unemployment rate has gone up again, according to the Toledo Blade:
Michigan's unemployment rate jumped again last month to 12.9 percent, still leading the nation, the state Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth said.
Hopefully, things will start getting better for all of us.
>>> It looks like Duke Energy Corp. had its day in court and it wasn't good.
Chicago Tribune:
Duke Energy Corp. violated the Clean Air Act by making changes at a southern Indiana power plant that significantly increased the air pollution it released into the Louisville, Ky., area, a federal jury has ruled in a decade-old lawsuit.
The Indianapolis jury found this week that Duke failed to obtain needed permits or install modern pollution-control equipment when it made changes at its coal-fired Gallagher plant near New Albany, Ind., that raised the station's sulfur dioxide emissions.
Environmentalists had joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in suing Cinergy Corp., now owned by Duke, in 1999 over changes to plants in Indiana and Ohio.....
Do you wonder if they thought no one would notice???
>>> Democratic Underground has linked a CBS News story that makes you wonder.....
American Airlines confirms that one of their pilots was arrested after failing a breathalyzer test at Heathrow Wednesday, CBS News has learned. He had been scheduled to fly a flight from Heathrow to Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
The airline issued the following statement:
"An American Airlines pilot was arrested at London Heathrow airport yesterday (Wednesday, 20 May) having failed a breathalyser test. Police had been called by airport staff working at the security control post.....
I'm glad someone suggested the breathalyser test. It probably saved many lives.
