Larry Brown has made the trip to Lubbock before as a member of the TCU football team during the days of the Southwest Conference.
While the Texas Tech fans always proved to be a rowdy group and not something a visiting team looked forward to, he was excited about this year’s trip to the Hub City [...]
John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was the destination for 188 Jefferson Parish Golden Age Club members who participated in their yearly mystery trip this month.
Humana sponsored the trip, which began with the members boarding four chartered buses at local playgrounds, unaware of the adventure ahead of them.
“They have faith that we will give [...]
Fresh from an eight-day overseas foreign policy fact-finding mission, Sen. Barack Obama today said the economy back home has worsened so dramatically that he believes a second stimulus package may be warranted.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said he will meet with economic strategists beginning Monday to discuss short-term and long-term solutions to the country’s [...]
I don’t want to feed into that ridiculous rightwing narrative about Obama thinking he’s the messiah. He’s a politician. He happens to have special talents, to which some people respond passionately. Others don’t. But that’s their problem. The Beatles didn’t order millions of teenage girls to scream, and Obama did not put pixie dust in [...]
Two days and a shave after returning from the top of the world, Gov. Bill Ritter says he remains convinced in his plans to deal with climate change at the state level.
Ritter and dozens of climate experts, political figures, non-profit managers, business leaders and clergy completed a week-long trip this past weekend to the Norwegian [...]
Gov. Bill Ritter is back from a weeklong trip to the Norwegian Arctic to discuss global warming and observe its impact.
“We urge Congress and the President to pass legislation to implement substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,” the participants wrote in a joint statement of action.
The trip was sponsored by the Aspen Institute, the National [...]
The Republican governor is meeting with several businesses at the Farnborough International Air Show in England on Monday. Also on his itinerary are a nuclear waste processing plant in France, and meetings with officials in Spain and Russia.
Crist says he hopes the trip will generate economic opportunities for Florida.
But Democratic Party spokesman Eric Jotkoff says [...]
A Lawrence teacher was chosen to spend a weekend in Washington, D.C., as part of a program celebrating the Bill of Rights.
She was one of 15 teachers to make the trip, and was selected for her commitment to spreading the values of the Bill of Rights.
Curtis, who visited the nation’s capital for the first time, [...]
At least two businessmen who went on the state’s March trade mission to Ireland and the United Kingdom said they were disappointed with Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer, one even saying Fischer hurt his efforts.
“I’m not sure of Jack’s purpose on the trip but it did nothing to help any of the participants’ businesses,” Chris Frigo [...]
More than 200 Chinese mainland tourists will leave today and tomorrow to join a celebration on Thursday in Washington DC, specially held for China’s inaugural leisure tour group to the United States.
The tourists will leave from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to join the event seen as marking a new era in Sino-US relations.
Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, [...]
