PropTalk.com - Italian angler Dino Ferrari caught an eight-foot, 260-lb catfish on the River Po in Italy. While the catfish is one of the biggest in European record books, it’s certainly not an anomaly. The record currently stands at 297lbs, 9 oz for anyone looking to break into Guinness… Source: http://proptalk.com/260-lb-wels-catfish-caught-italy/
This week the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency spent two days in Missouri pushing the agency’s latest attempt to regulate our rural way of life. In the last few years the EPA has attempted to regulate everything from how we meet our energy needs to prohibiting young people from working on the family farm. Just when I thought the EPA could not get any more extreme, now they are trying to place new intrusive and ineffective rules on every body of water in the United States. In April, the EPA announced it would attempt to expand the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act through a new “Waters of the United States” plan. The proposed new rule would
Astronomy Central - The vast majority of objects out there in the universe are pretty big…moons, planets, stars, galaxies, so it can be difficult sometimes to get your head round their actual size. Here you’ll see how some space stuff out there compares to Earth stuff down here. http://astronomycentral.co.uk/astronomy-the-size-of-stuff/
Washington, D.C. - As of today, the national average price for a gallon of gas is $3.67. In 2009, that same gallon of gas would have cost just $2.35. As the summer sets in, gasoline prices are continuing to rise with the summer temperatures. At a time when our economy is struggling, higher gas prices will put a huge burden on working families trying to make ends meet. The rising cost of gas not only affects Missourians at the pump, it will also drive up the cost of goods and services. This week the House of Representatives took action to help lower the price of gasoline and natural gas for all Americans. I supported H.R. 4899, the Lowering Gasoline
NewWave, the new owners of City Cable, converted Whiteley Park into a kids dream. Bouncy houses and blowup slides and rock walls had lines of kids waiting for their turn. According to John Brinker, NewWave General Manager of Missouri/Arkansas, over 300 citizens came out to enjoy an evening of family fun. When asked about the transition, Brinker was pleased with their progress and the NewWave team expects that customers will begin receiving their bills from NewWave by mid-August.
