| Kids Are Worth the Cost
Obviously, there are plenty of other ways I could invest the quarter of a million dollars-plus it will take to raise her that would ensure a life of luxury that I'm now unlikely to experience. Do I regret my choice? Not for a second. At the time I was adopting my daughter, several acquaintances wondered why I would give up a life of great freedom and the financial means to enjoy it. I did it because, to me, Kris Kristofferson was right: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. My daughter is now 9 years old. Every Friday night when we snuggle up to watch a movie together, or whenever she turns to me with laughing eyes and says, "Mom, you're crazy, but I still love you," I know I've spent my money wisely. My life is so much richer with my child than it was without her.
Sturgeon: put the treetop adventure course on hold
The fact is that this consultation failed and, instead of pressing full steam ahead to a planning decision, the council should allow it to be re-run. "It is simply not credible to argue that people knew what was going on but chose to ignore it. "I hope that the council and Go Ape will now agree to take a step back and allow for a proper consultation with the real owners of Pollok Park - the people of Glasgow." But, despite her appeal, the council responded yesterday by insisting it is "not in a position" to halt the planning application and has no plans to re-run its consultation. A council spokesman said: "A third party has made a planning application and, as a result, the statutory planning process is now under way. Glasgow City Council's role in the process is as the local planning authority and it is not in a position to stop, alter or frustrate the application.
Archives for: July 2007
Threatened homeowners and town officials moved decisively in the weeks after the storm... But many residents say that the push for Chatham to assert its will in shaping its coastline has failed to gain traction in the face of a more popular philosophy: Let nature take its course... Read the rest of this Globe story here. ________________________ The politics of pollution: The world faces a potent political struggle as it grapples with global warming SOMERSET — Perched like a fortress at the edge of Mount Hope Bay, Brayton Point power plant is a prominent landmark in SouthCoast — a region struggling to reinvent itself as a center for clean, renewable energy. Brayton Point (on right) is one of the biggest electricity producers in Massachusetts. But each year, its smokestacks release several million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — inefficient generators and high-carbon coal fuel make it one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the Northeast... Even among politicians who are endorsing action to combat global warming, there are varying degrees of commitment, notes Sue Reid, a staff attorney at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.
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