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___ Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that ...
Puerto Rico's Culebra awaits new hospital, school
Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said this week that the island will get its first hospital and large-scale recycling center, as ...
INVESTORS HELP TESLA REPAY A $465 MILLION FEDERAL LOAN EARLY
c.2013 New York Times News Service The taxpayer no longer has to worry about Tesla Motors. Tesla, the electric carmaker, on Wednesday paid off a $465 million loan that the Energy Department made in 2010. The repayment is a lift to the Obama administration, whose clean-energy loan programs faced criticism ...
INVESTORS HELP TESLA REPAY A $465 MILLION FEDERAL LOAN EARLY
c.2013 New York Times News Service The taxpayer no longer has to worry about Tesla Motors. Tesla, the electric carmaker, on Wednesday paid off a $465 million loan that the Energy Department made in 2010. The repayment is a lift to the Obama administration, whose clean-energy loan programs faced criticism ...
More ethanol leaking after Iowa train derailment
Iowa officials say more ethanol is leaking into the Little Cedar River following a train derailment east of Charles City. The state Department of Natural Resources says workers trying to recover ethanol cars and locomotives on Wednesday realized a second ethanol car was leaking. They discovered leaking ethanol and fuel ...
New Chevy Sonic is RS hatchback
The newest Chevrolet Sonic is a peppy, stylish, versatile and good handling RS hatchback with standard turbo engine, leather-trimmed seats and smartphone infotainment link — all for a starting price tag of less $21,000. Better yet, the 2013 Sonic 5-Door RS has the top, overall, five-out-of-five-stars rating for passenger protection ...
Tesla shows Model S to influence NC auto bill
North Carolina lawmakers and passersby stopped to take in a display of Tesla Motors' award-winning electric cars Wednesday as the company presses against a bill in the General Assembly that effectively outlaws Tesla's Internet-based sales model. The California automaker drew sporadic crowds around its Model S electric car outside the ...
Cat tests positive for rabies in Hillsborough, NH
Police in Hillsborough, N.H., say a cat that has attacked three people has tested positive for rabies. WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/18hOwLu) the cat has been killed. The cat was described as a medium-hair, black and white street cat and police advised people who may have come into contact with it to ...
Somerset power plant cuts mercury emissions
A coal-fired Massachusetts power plant frequently listed as one of the most polluting in the state has dramatically reduced its mercury emissions. Federal data from the Brayton Point plant in Somerset show mercury emissions fell by almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2012, by an average of 19 pounds per year. ...
Oregon Editorial Rdp
Editorials from Oregon newspapers Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, on shopping for health insurance. A funny thing happened on the way to health care reform: Insurance companies began to compete with each other, right out in the open. A comparison of premiums that health insurers propose to begin charging next ...
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