Government's green slip is showing

Leather-clad bikies stood with scooter enthusiasts outside State Parliament yesterday to protest against changes to third party insurance, which last month increased green slip premiums by up to 85.5 per cent for increasingly popular 250cc motorcycles and scooters.

[dining] Digging In : Myra Goodman’s new Earthbound Cook burrows deeper than delicious food. - Monterey County Weekly

The first recipe Myra Goodman ever fashioned does not appear in her second splendid cookbook, The Earthbound Cook: 250 Recipes for Delicious Food and a Healthy Planet, which was released in stores this week. Nor does it appear in her first one – the Food To Live By beauty that sparked the enthusiastic feedback that in turn inspired number two. (“I don’t think I would’ve done another one,” she ...

Maine sales of existing homes fall 30%, but median price rises

WASHINGTON — Home prices in many parts of the country scream bargain, and mortgage rates haven't been this low for decades. No matter.

Schools at slow pace for 100% proficiency Annual report shows varied progress in reaching No Child Left Behind targets

The eight public schools that serve Northumberland County students vary greatly in their state testing performance, some inching closer, others still far away from meeting the 2014 deadline for 100 percent proficiency in math and reading for the federal

Airbrushing the truth about women

The equalities minister, Lynne Featherstone, wants us to embrace Mad Men’s curvy secretary Joan as a role model. Wrong choice, right idea.