‘Remodeling’ guidelines will help with green-home plans – Detroit News
Green has to be the color of the year. Everywhere you look you cannot escape it. If you want to save the planet, or even live a few more years, you gotta go “green.” There is nothing wrong with this hullabaloo. But, it takes a great deal of effort to

Media group slams Thai prime minister – Guardian Unlimited
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej routinely harasses reporters and attempts to intimidate the media with his foul mouth, a coalition of Thai journalism groups charged Saturday. The Organizations of Media Occupations, which

Vacant asylum in Kalamazoo a headache for officials – Detroit Free Press
KALAMAZOO, Mich.– A vacant building in Kalamazoo’s Fairmont neighborhood has come to fascinate thrill-seekers and give headaches to local officials. Grainy black-and-white videos on the Web site YouTube titled, “Kalamazoo Asylum” and “Insane Asylum

Cosby brings ‘blunt’ message to community leaders – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Comedian Bill Cosby, right, greets Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, left, at a conference for community organizations in Newark, Thursday, May 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Mike Derer) NEWARK, N.J. — Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of