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Garbage poachers coming to your town?

20. July 2008

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Amazingly, the value of recycled garbage has now reached a point where it makes economic sense for people to organize networks of trucks to go out and tear apart people’s recycling bins. And now governments are taking action to ban large-scale anonymous recycling of bottles, cans, and newspapers by requiring picture ID and enforcing criminal [...]

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Global Warming Forced into Classrooms?

17. February 2008

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A California lawmaker is pushing a bill to require global warming be included in all science courses throughout the state’s public schools. What business does the state legislature have of deciding what is taught in a science class? Shouldn’t science teachers and local school officials makes these sort of decisions? A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining [...]

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