Amy Goodman: Obama’s budget takes to freezing the poor

Focus on the word “freeze.” That is exactly what many people might do, if this budget passes as proposed. While defense spending increases, with the largest Pentagon funding request since World War II, the budget calls for cutting in half a program called Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.

Unthawed snow mounds may delay use of Red Bank athletic fields | The Asbury Park Press | APP.com

Don't take the soccer ball, bat and mitt out of storage yet. Borough officials said that opening the borough's athletic fields may be delayed this spring due to mounds of unthawed snow.

Barron's Gadget of the Week: - Barrons.com

on some stretches, the regenerative brakes were putting more juice into the car than it was using.