DENVER (AP) - A bill to allow communities to help homeowners and businesses finance solar, wind and energy efficiency improvements has won unanimous approval in the House Transportation Committee.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

Why don't we just dispose of this whole "school" thing altogether, and quit burdening the little moppets with anything resembling actual learning, that may adversely interfere with their playtime. Toronto's public school students may be leaving their book bags at home the next time they go on holiday - and education experts are lauding the proposed new policy as ahead of the curve in this country. [..] The proposal tackles the hot-button issue of overload, proposing the abolishment of homeworhttp://www.lassooftruth.com/the_lasso_of_t...

Sure there are the technical questions, Wordpress or Moveable Type? (pssst..we love Moveable Type and TypePad) but another question that comes up when I talk to other non-profits is what should our voice be? Do we have one blogger speak or many? What should our core personality be? Well I got a chance to talk to my new friend Rohit Bhargava about this. He is the author of a new book about Personality on the Web and in Social Media. Check out the interview below. 1) What should non-profts havehttp://www.fispace.org/home/2008/04/how-sh...

As mentioned in passing yesterday, Manchester United took the away leg of their Champions League quarterfinal with Roma yesterday, 2-0. Impressive though that might’ve been, the Guardian’s Scott Murray and Barney Ronay are having trouble putting the Red Devils’ achievment into some historical perspective. “Imagine our surprise this morning at the discovery that what we’d witnessed the night before on the 64-inch Polytron round-screen was in fact a ROOMAN INVASION. And that, according to the nahttp://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=1287...

Bad news from the banks, so why are shares soaring? April 2nd, 2008 Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, announced its sub-prime-related losses had doubled to $37bn yesterday, sending it into a quarterly loss for the second quarter in a row. It has raised another $15bn or so in a rights issue to prop up its balance sheet, on top of $13bn already raised from Singaporean and Middle Eastern investors. The chairman, Marcel Ospel, stepped down. Meanwhile, Lehman Brothers, which had been seen as pothttp://persevere.lineages.co.uk/2008/04/02...