Because you need UCI points, and to have those, you’d better be on the UCI’s new list of “elite” teams for 2012.  Only two teams, Trek World Racing and Ghost Factory Racing (Ghost is a big brand in Germany but not sold in the U.S.), are “elite” in both gravity and endurance events, and all that [...]

When every level of the United States education system is completely consumed by ill-educated, brainwashed teachers and administrators, little can we ever hope will come [...]

Please use this open thread to post ideas, comments and information on issues not directly related to article published on the Black Bear Blog. Thank [...]

I found this in the Library of Congress, manuscripts division, and by pure coincidence. October, 1856: Lincoln is writing the editor of the Illinois Republican newspaper. He’s commencing his rise — he’d been chosen as head of the new Illinois…

This is freaky. I’m wondering if she is sick, or just tame. Certainly atypical behavior!

*Editor’s Note* Archived newspaper clippings that I used in compiling this report, were all accomplished and given to me by my good friend and part-time [...]

Streetsblog really hit a raw nerve with this post. The partial read is here, but the setup is that a reader said that there’s a double standard on reckless behavior, and spelled it out as follows… Start it here, but click through to the post if you’re an urban cyclist who wants to see the [...]

Transfer of land to state completes four-year conservation project ELLENSBURG, Wash.–In the Cascade Mountains some 20 miles east of Ellensburg, a coalition of conservation partners [...]

That’s the question in Idaho, where a blog recently reported that the state’s Wildlife Services agency, which is again considering shooting wolves from the air, was until recently representing wolf kills on an aircraft much the same way that fighter pilots used to adorn aircraft with symbols of gunned-down enemy planes. In this case the [...]

Liftopia, which is already the largest online marketplace for discounted ski lift tickets, yesterday launched an app version for iPhones. You can use the iPhone’s location awareness to have it auto-shop deals, or search by date or region. A pretty sweet feature is that you don’t have to print a lift pass; you just show [...]