Did stimulus really help them?Washington's elected officials and punditocracy have of late been consumed in hashing out the shape of an economic stimulus package. While no love has been lost between Republicans and Democrats in the pit fight over the bill's final shape, both sides say they recognize that some form of government action is needed, and needed promptly. "I can tell you that doing nothing is not an option," President Obama said today during an appearance in the economic disaster zone
Headed to a landfill near you?It has taken millions of people's jobs and houses. Could the global recession now threaten our health?
This theoretical question is at the heart of a regulatory standoff between California toxics police and the automobile recycling industry.
State regulators want auto recyclers to cease dumping 700,000 tons of potentially toxic automobile recycling waste into municipal landfills, and instead cart it to special, highly-expensive, toxic-waste holding facilities. The