In the news. Could it be over? Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman says that she believes the Democrats will have a presidential nominee in June and that if it is not Clinton, she will campaign for rival Barack Obama.
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BOULDER is a tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming. It boasts a skyline of snowcapped mountains. It also boasts having one of the worst ozone levels in the US.
The peak eight-hour average for ozone near Boulder reached 122 parts per billion on Feb. 21 and 102 parts per billion on March 11. By comparison, the Los Angeles area hit a peak average of 152 parts per billion last summer, and Denver recorded a peak of 98 parts per billion last July. The pollution is mostly from the region's booming natural gas industry, and is in the form of ground-level ozone. It has exceeded healthy levels 11 times since January.
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They are rollin' in the dough. Over the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering — more than $1 billion to be exact. Pap John's is the nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain. The company says that it's U.S. online sales have been growing at an average clip of more than 50 percent per year. In 2001, the chain's online sales totaled $20.4 million. Last year, its online sales approached $400 million.
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A town declare bankruptcy. Vallejo California is a bayside community of 117,000 25 miles northeast of San Francisco. The Vallejo City Council voted to declare bankruptcy due to dwindling tax revenues, the housing market meltdown and a faltering economy.Vallejo is the largest city in California to declare bankruptcy, though Orange County did so in 1994 after a spate of bad investments. The city is facing a $16 million shortfall for the fiscal year beginning in July. Should have made online pizza sales.
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