Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.bronx.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.bronx.com/files.php?file= http://www.bronx.com/ http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1873.html U.S.A. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:54:00 -0500 As the long season of darkness sweeps over the country, it’s a natural time to think about lighting – and how dependent we are on electricity during this dim time of year. You can heat your home with several different energy sources, including natural gas, heating oil or wood. But unless you’re living off-the-grid, the lights throughout your abode burn brightly because of electricity from the grid. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1752.html U.S.A. Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:15:00 -0400 Between the debt-ceiling kerfuffle and Hurricane Irene, you may have missed two bits of summertime news that will be important for what we drive in the coming years. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1716.html U.S.A. Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:47:00 -0400 Just over a century ago, when William Howard Taft was president and I was a young woman, an entrepreneur named Thomas Aldwell started building a dam in the Northwest woods of the Olympic peninsula in Washington. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1692.html U.S.A. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:12:00 -0400 I spent this past summer trudging through six-mile treks each weekend with two good friends. We walked along the edge of wheat fields outside of town. (My friends and I qualify as middle-aged ladies, so the walks counted as significant exercise. Sad but true.) One of the interesting things about the walks was simply observing the growth and ripening of the wheat fields by which we passed. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1673.html U.S.A. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:57:00 -0400 The laws of physical science teach us we can neither create nor destroy energy. But it’s also a simple fact that we can surely waste it. And that raises the possibility ofsaving money by refusing to let energy slip through our fingers. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1626.html U.S.A. Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:17:00 -0400 When I was a kid I was “born again,” a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I was walking with kindly poured her drinking water on my hot little head. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1601.html U.S.A. Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:46:00 -0400 This Summer has been filled with acrimony about the federal budget, with red versus blue politicians squaring off to hurl criticisms at each other. For a lot of us, turning on the news has felt like an exercise in masochism. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1486.html U.S.A. Mon, 02 May 2011 08:16:00 -0400 Tonight, Senator Adriano Espaillat (D – Manhattan/Bronx) released the following statement regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden, mastermind of the September, 2001 attacks in New York: http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1453.html U.S.A. Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:12:00 -0400 One of my mother’s friends was raised decades ago on a few acres at the end of gravel road in Idaho. As she puts it, her family’s basic challenge was eating what it produced before other critters did. In other words, it was useful to consume the eggs in the henhouse before the foxes got to them. http://www.bronx.com/news/usa/1411.html U.S.A. Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:47:00 -0400 Scientists have studied natural climate change for quite a while. Part of what we have learned about past climates comes from tree rings, and thereon hangs an interesting tale going back more than a century. The Bronx Times & Bronx.com