Saturday, March 03, 2007

Environment prosecutor, lobbyist own home jointly 



Nine months before agreeing to let Conoco-Phillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.

Pacific Mist Inn and Cabins of Mendocino Offer Whale Watchers Festival Vacation Rental Home Special 
Celebrating the Whale Festivals in Mendocino, March 3, 4, 2007, and in Fort Bragg March 17, 18, 2007, Pacific Mist Inn and Cabins announced that throughout the month of March, they are offering a special for travelers to the Mendocino Coast, if a guest books any room or cabin for 2 nights, the third night is for free. With some 20,000 gray whales migrating north from birthing grounds in Mexico to ...

The Fergus Falls Daily Journal 
Drop bags are filled with supplies needed by the musher and dogs and sent out to the 25 checkpoints between Anchorage and Nome before the race begins.

Mellow in Europe, crazy in America 
Reed canarygrass is a bit like some people on vacation. At home, they stay on their side of the fence, and speak nicely with the neighbors. But jet them into Las Vegas and by week's end they are shoving other people out of the way in the casino.

Mushers begin shipping dog food for 2007 Iditarod 
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Stan Hecker hoisted a 40-pound bag of dog food up on one shoulder, lumbered away and deposited it on a pallet to be shipped to one of the checkpoints along the...