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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Borrego Springs NEWS - Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land - Cleveland Plain Dealer

WASHINGTON (AP) — California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash Wales NEWS

WASHINGTON -- Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground for a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds. Crops to be planted in the coming weeks on Wales NEWS

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea reopened a military hotline with the South on Saturday, a day after Washington and Seoul ended annual defense drills Pyongyang had called preparations for an invasion. The North also confirmed it had detained two Wales NEWS

NEW YORK -- The chief executives of the nation's three largest banks on Friday pushed back against legislation that would heavily tax Wall Street bonuses. Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit and Bank of America Corp.'s Kenneth Lewis both issued memos to Wales NEWS

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA)--Several road closures will be implemented in Washington, DC, and in Arlington, Virginia, on Saturday March 21, 2009, to allow for the running of the National Marathon and for the ANSWER Anti-War Demonstration. Beginning at 5:00 Wales NEWS

Six-year-old Savannah Tropp, from Ashdown, Ark., rides a mechanical bull Friday afternoon during the Jonquil Festival at Old Washington, Ark. The festival continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. It was a bloomin Wales NEWS

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are drawing out a flap that has made the Obama administration squirm, applying the brakes to Democratic attempts to quickly tax away most of the bonuses at troubled insurance giant AIG and other bailed-out companies Wales NEWS

DUBAI -- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday dismissed President Barack Obama's New Year greeting to the country, delivering Iran's clearest rebuke so far to Washington's recent diplomatic overtures. In a speech to tens of Wales NEWS

There are few absolute rules in Washington, but here’s one of them: When everybody’s saying the same thing, they’re bound to be wrong. And that’s the case today with earmarks. There are 8,750 of them, totaling $7.7 billion, in the $410 Wales NEWS

Students who participate in chorus programs throughout the Millbrook district schools got a chance to hobnob Thursday. The first "Singapalooza," a day full of workshops and music for district chorus members, was held at Millbrook High School, with Wales NEWS

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