The Department of Agriculture says U.S. farm profits this year are going to be well above average. But commentator and journalist Bill McConnell says farmers know better than to get too excited about any short-term windfall.
Beijing has promised a smoke-free Olympics this August, and today, the city began a sweeping ban on smoking in public places. That is, with the exception of a couple of highly visible industries.
Scott Tong reports.
Consumers are facing a double whammy. Sticker-shock at the gas pumps and again at the grocery store. Today a Congressional hearing focuses on how rising food costs affect Americans and what can be done. Jeff Tyler has more.
"Love in the Meadows," the French version of a TV show now airing in America, is in its third season. About 100,000 single French farmers live often lonely, rural lives, but many wish the show would be put out to pasture. John Laurenson reports.
With newspapers across the nation cutting staff, and local and national broadcast outlets laying people off, commentator David Frum asks whether the future of the news business might be found in a more partisan press.
Spring has been coming earlier and earlier in the Rocky Mountains for the past decade. And while this year has been a bumper crop for snow, scientists and farmers are worried about a dry, long-term trend. Peter O'Dowd reports.
Some politicians want to give Americans a break this summer with a gas tax holiday. Commentator Robert Reich says that would only encourage more driving and, hence, drive gas prices up even higher and fuel global warming.
In Europe, utilities pay people who provide green energy for the power grid. But everyone else foots the bill for those payments. There's talk about doing the same thing in the U.S. Can Americans afford another surcharge on their energy bills? Lisa Desai reports.
You go on the Web to read an article, and what do you see first? A car ad zooming across the screen. Advertisers always want new ways to get our attention. Commentator Rob Walker says now it's getting personal.
