City manager says Leaf-gate is `education'.
Byline: Dianne Williamson COLUMN: DIANNE WILLIAMSON On Sunday I turned my column over to Kim Stone of Otsego Road, who outlined her frustration with a city that pays inspectors to hand out citations for improper leaf gathering, while the economy is tanking and vital services...

Worth noting.
* A team of scientists report they have discovered Earth's most ancient rocks. The samples of Nuvvuagittuq greenstone found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada, are purported to be 4.28 billion years old--250 million years older than any known to date--and may hold evidence of ancient life forms....

Calvin, consistory, company: the roots of Presbytery.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Presbytery. It is part of our name, Presbyterian. Some love Presbytery; some detest it and some ignore it. Some, like Walter Bryden, suggest that "Presbyterian systems are often so grotesquely abused and so ineffectively operated that the genius of that system...

P2.2-B worth of counterfeit goods seized.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) yesterday disclosed that various enforcement agencies were able to haul of P2.21 billion worth of confiscated pirated and counterfeit goods for the period January-September this year. IP Philippines Director General Atty. Adrian S. Cristobal Jr. said the intensified...

Lost in space; the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness.
9781593322977 Lost in space; the criminalization, globalization, and urban ecology of homelessness. Amster, Randall. LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC 2008 269 pages $32.95 Paperback HV4493 Building on his earlier work in Street...

Pasay to launch new program for vendors.
The Pasay City government will soon embark on a citywide organized program on vendors. This was announced by Mayor Wenceslao "Peewee' Trinidad after the city council has passed a resolution which will allow the local government to come up with an organized program for vendors. ...

3 'discipline zones' designated in Cainta.
Designated are Cainta Junction, Imelda Ave.. and Andres Bonifacio St.-Floodway. Mayor Ilagan said a "discipline zone" is an area where all municipal ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations are imposed and followed strictly by residents and visitors alike. Asked if ordinances and other laws should also...

Building owners urged to install rain collectors.
Isabelo Montejo, FMS-DENR 7 regional technical director, in a recent interview, said that the rain collector facility will enable the building owners to store the rain water which can be used for various purposes. "There are already local ordinances regarding the necessity of installing rain collector in...

Officials target slobs in multifamily housing.
Byline: Paula J. Owen FITCHBURG - City officials are concerned about trash on the sidewalks, specifically in front of multifamily homes, and are looking at consolidating trash ordinances to give them a little more bite. The City Council's subcommittee on legislative affairs is trying to...

Trash composting yields organic fertilizers for Santiago City farms.
SANTIAGO CITY - Tons and tons of biodegradable garbage collected daily from 23 of the city's 37 villages are converted into organic fertilizer for use in Santiago's 7,700-hectare rice farms. "Only biodegradable wastes can be converted into organic fertilizers. The non-biodegradable ones are either recycled or thrown...