SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -- California air regulators adopted a sweeping climate plan yesterday that would require the state's utilities, refineries and large factories to transform their operations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

In some ways, we caught a break in 2008. No serial murder on a bike path. No cop-killer in the woods. And our control boards and weather almost seemed minor compared with the damage inflicted by crises -- both financial and meteorological -- across the na

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The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.

There was still some language to work out and the motion to recommend approval became a bit wordy, but the comprehensive plan Tuesday made it past the Albert Lea Planning Commission.