Thursday May 17 | The Kansas City Star
Postal Service to begin closing plants this summer
The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the agency's mail processing network had simply become too big, given declining mail ... (more)
Hope for Natural Gas Pipeline Shifts From Juneau to Japan
After state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that might have brought a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, new hope for such a project has been revived Tuesday -- by officials with the government of Japan.