Syracuse says 'So long' to spring - syracuse.com

This was the coldest spring since 1993, according to statistics from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University in Ithaca.

June 13, 2009: Sun Road may not open for weeks | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

Snowplows cleared the Going-to-the-Sun Road atop Logan Pass this week, but the 50-mile alpine route through Glacier National Park probably won't be fully open for several weeks.

Big Drift, just east of the Continental Divide, is living up to its name with about 70 feet of snow still clogging the road, according to road crew superintendent Stan Stehr.

Cap and trade: It's an economic catastrophe - David Harsanyi - The Denver Post

If you have even a basic grasp of cap-and-trade policy, you're one in a million.

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, given a choice of three options, only 24 percent of voters could even identify that cap-and-trade policies had anything to do with environmental issues.

A higher number believed that it was about regulating Wall Street. A plurality had no idea what it was at all.

Who can blame them? It's preposterously convoluted.
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You will, of course, hear the argument that doing anything is better than doing nothing. The problem is that's not the choice we face — and cap-and-trade proponents know it.