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...many consumers, the only silver lining on the global financial crisis has been the falling oil price it has precipitated. But OPEC is determined to put an end to the relief at the gas pump. Concerned to protect their countries' financial health, oil ministers from the 13 members of the cartel of oil-producing countries meet in Vienna on Friday with only one item on their agenda - cutting their oil output in order to drive up world prices. Oil prices have been slashed by more than half in just three months, from $147 a barrel in July...
...read the article on the Spanish environment Minister, Cristina Narbona Ruiz. I agree that the Minister's policy to protect the Spanish coastline is laudable. However, as was widely commented on by the Spanish media, it is a fact that while she is demolishing a poor neighborhood on the seafront in Tenerife, she is allowing the construction of a building on Arosa Island in Galicia, just 20 m from the sea, where wealthy people will end up owning luxury flats. Consequently I believe she does not deserve to be on the list of heroes as her policies are not equal...
Luck may have finally run out for Wonderland Greyhound Park, located near the final stop on the Blue Line, if a ballot question to ban dog racing in Massachusetts passes this November. The proposal, sponsored by The Committee to Protect Dogs and driven largely by concerns about animal mistreatment, represents a rehash of a ballot question from the 2000 elections that sought to ban dog racing in the state. That initiative failed by a 51 to 49 percent margin. A poll of likely voters conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm, indicated that 50 percent...
...Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, however, is fighting in Arizona in an attempt to protect gay marriage's sole Election Day success story. They've been involved in California too, though Wilfore says things there could go either way, in part because it's unclear what impact Senator Barack Obama's popularity in the state will have on the gay-marriage vote. Blacks and Hispanics, she says, are likely to vote with conservatives on gay marriage, but young people of all backgrounds tend to vote the other way. Which group will prove dominant is anyone's guess, she says...
...Environmental Action Committee (EAC) is kicking off a campaign of its own—one that revolves around 1,500 little green cards. The EAC chose well to devote time and energy to Power Vote, a national non-partisan effort that promises to tangible results in the fight to protect our planet. Power Vote’s goal to elevate environmental issues in the upcoming election, to be achieved by mobilizing young voters, is naturally a positive one. And the methods to be used are even better. Youth volunteers both on and off college campuses across the country are reaching...