Washington, D.C. - On the eve of the Caterpillar Corporation's stockholders meeting in Chicago, 70+ groups and companies have sent a letter to Caterpillar, Inc.  CEO Jim Owens urging him to immediately withdraw Caterpillar from the United States Climate Action ...
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June 12, 2007 Mr. James W. Owens Chief Executive Officer Caterpillar, Inc. 100 North East Adams Street Peoria, IL 61629 Dear Mr. Owens, You recently acknowledged that excessive regulations harm Caterpillar’s bottom line, noting in your 2006 Annual Report to ...
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In a project spearheaded by the National Center for Public Policy Research on the eve of the Caterpillar corporation's stockholders meeting, 70+ groups and companies have sent a letter to Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens urging him to immediately withdraw Caterpillar ...
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David Hogberg reminds politicians of something they should already know in an op-ed in the Washington Times today: Politicians and pundits lump the terms "health care" and "health insurance" together as though they are the same thing. For example, Sen ...
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High school athletics regulators in Maine banned two home-schooled students from a private school's track and cross-country teams, requiring them to join their local public school's athletics program to compete. Children Banned from Participating in Private Schools' Sports Teams Students ...
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Rarely is a green politician so straightforward about one of the main motivators of green advocates: Just a day after announcing that he had the support of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is presenting his plan for ...
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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie is scoffing at the NAACP's explanation for its financial woes, reports Randy Hall at CNSNews.com: Massie laid much of the blame for the NAACP's financial problems on Julian Bond, director of the organization's board of ...
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I read this two months ago, and didn't blog about it, but I find I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. It's a blog post by a doctor in Britain. He sees two patients with similar ...
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An ace student who skipped high school to complete college was prevented from receiving the associate's degree she earned while still a teenager. Because the child prodigy was not 19 years old, state education regulators in New York did not ...
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The Glasgow, Scotland Daily Record says: Poor [National Health Service] treatment has led to almost half a million Scots dying in the last 30 years, a new study has revealed.Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a ...
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