On this fine Thursday, BP heads to court. In Idaho. I guess the theory is that Idahoans are less biased against BP than residents of the Gulf states.
China: getting more polluted. Anyone remember in 2007 when the NY Times decided to write about how dirty and disgusting China was, every day, for like a month? That was awesome.
French! woman! killed! eight! of her babies!
Hawaii gets ready to stuff its trash down the Columbia River Gorge.
Four die in a military plane crash in Alaska.
Rep. Charles Rangel—who increasingly appears pompous and delusional—will go before a congressional ethics panel. What the hell do congressmen know about ethics??
Obama talks about education...
...and New York state comes to the tragic realization that if you don't artificially inflate statewide test scores, they'll be a lot lower.
And finally, Portland City Council accepts a report on the James Chasse case... we'll have more on that later today, and in next week's paper. Meanwhile, Maxine Bernstein has a story.
On this day in 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the space agency NASA. Possibly because of his previous UFO encounter: