Day: May 23, 2006

Hurricane season begins June 1, with the U.S. coast from North Carolina to Texas again at above-average risk, but coastal residents can take modest comfort in the knowledge that the federal government’s response to any havoc-wreaking storm will be under a microscope.

On Saturday afternoon, my heart broke in more places than Barbaro’s right hind ankle. Many more places.

Here’s something to ponder: If we manage to expel all the illegal immigrants from south of the border, who’s going to build the fence to keep them out?

At Irma’s Fashions just off the main drag, Irma Bertuccio greets customers as she has for 66 years in this town on California’s central coast.

In his address to the nation last week on immigration, President Bush highlighted the patriotism of Guadalupe Denogean, a Mexican-born man who joined the Marines more than a quarter century ago and got his wish for U.S. citizenship in 2003 after being seriously wounded in Iraq.

The world’s leading climatologists may agree that burning fossil fuels is a significant contributor to global warming, but Alaska’s congressman isn’t buying it.

The upcoming hurricane season won’t be as busy as last year’s record-shattering 28 tropical storms, but the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are still at above-average risk for new poundings, forecasters said Monday.

A Democratic congressman facing a bribery probe after FBI agents found $90,000 stashed in his freezer denied wrongdoing on Monday and said he would not resign his congressional seat.

Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the securities class action law firm indicted last week on fraud charges stemming from corporate lawsuits it filed, made large political contributions almost exclusively to Democrats since 1999, records show.