Prensa Libre  (Guatemala City, Guatemala)  11/24/08
Bank of Guatemala numbers show that individual monetary remittances to Guatemala reached a record 3 billion 663.33 million dollars during the first ten months of this year, an amount more than 200 million larger than in the equivalent period of 2007. These remittances have shown a strong increase  since 2001. [...]

By Jessica Musicar, Staff Writer, The World
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
NORTH BEND — North Bend city councilors are a bit irritated over a trash service rate increase they approved earlier this month. Tonight, they are scheduled to give final authorization for North Bend Sanitation Inc. to increase the rate by 2.78 percent, which would cost residential [...]

But officials claim the bash got out of control and there were alcohol violations
BY MARK BAKER
The Register-Guard
Published: Nov 25, 2008 11:10AM
A large and loud campus party Saturday that Eugene police say got out of control as it ran into Sunday morning resulted in four arrests and 47 citations. But residents of the student cooperative where [...]

by Star Parker, townhall
How can you not feel that emptiness in the pit of your stomach as you watch our financial markets spin downward? The broad stock market indices are down well over 40 percent since the beginning of the year. Losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 trillion. source >>>
Star Parker hits the [...]

By Nicholas Stix, VDARE
It is now 40 days since the tortured corpses of Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, a Polish immigrant, and his African-American bride of two months, fellow Marine Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, who was gang-raped and tortured via “sexual penetration with a foreign object” were found in their new home in the small, Riverside County [...]

A coalition of environmental groups just won a court decision, blocking Shell from drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea. The ruling bears on the impacts of noise on bowhead whales.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
In what may be the first of many environmental battles that will arise from efforts to exploit minerals beneath the soon-to-be-denuded Arctic [...]

Russian warships approached Venezuela Monday for upcoming joint maneuvers — Moscow’s first military presence in the region since the Cold War — as Washington closely monitored the situation.
Venezuelan defense officials said the ships, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and destroyer Admiral Chabankenko, would arrive on Tuesday. source >>>
A very dangerous world indeed, and [...]

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s [...]

By IVAN MORENO, AP, examiner.com
DENVER (Map, News) – Many Mexicans increasingly feel unwelcome in Colorado because of a perceived anti-immigrant sentiment, and some are looking back home for opportunities as the economy here sours, Denver’s Mexican consul general says. “What I’ve found is that in our communities, with few exceptions, there’s a sense that the [...]

by Amy Hsuan, The Oregonian
Friday November 21, 2008, 9:49 PM
SHENZHEN, China — In this far corner of China’s manufacturing heartland, Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s dream of making Oregon home to America’s green car movement is about to roll off the assembly lines. At BYD Auto Co., China’s fast-growing automotive star, a plug-in electric hybrid sedan is [...]

by In the news    Sunday, November 23. 2008
Let’s talk a bit about unemployment.  Unemployment hit 7.3% in October in Oregon and we all woke up on Tuesday to reports that another 300 people in the paper industry are losing their jobs. Rather than dwell on the likely increases in unemployment in the coming months, let’s [...]

Terror-linked Muslim lobby’s dinner turns into public relations nightmare
By Joseph Farah
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – When the Council on American-Islamic Relations held its 14th Annual Banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel tonight, it was planning to raise funds and honor some of its supporters, but instead several top officials of the Muslim lobby group were [...]

By RACHEL JONES
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelans voted to choose state governors and mayors Sunday in elections that could either hand President Hugo Chavez his second straight electoral setback or give his leftist government a new mandate.
He faced an emboldened opposition aiming to break his dominance and win back power in key states and cities. [...]

By Alexander Rich, Staff Writer, The World
Saturday, November 22, 2008
COOS BAY — Laurie Moore has heard a lot about the Hollering Place since opening her coffee house in the heart of the Empire district.
Java Jones hosts the monthly meetings of Concerned Citizens of Empire, where the subject has become a hot topic. In between, regulars [...]

A year and a half after layoffs at the sheriff’s office, rural areas remain without adequate law enforcement protection
By Jolene Guzman, Staff Writer, The World
When Charleston resident Jim Thornton came home from vacation two months ago, he discovered an unpleasant surprise. Uninvited guests had been in his house. “It looked like they had been living [...]