The Wall Street Journal
Ohio geologists link fracking and earthquakes. I've posted this story earlier. So much for the Marcellus Shale. At least that's the article says. I always thought Ohio was Utica, Pennsylvania was the Marcellus. Overlap, obviously. Utica, multiple plays; Marcellus, mostly natural gas, I guess.
Rhode Island pension deal falls apart. A fight over Rhode Island's 2011 pension overhaul is headed to trial after a tentative agreement between state officials and public-sector unions to soften the law collapsed Friday.
US help for Kiev (the Ukraine) comes with caution. The Obama administration and NATO face a quandary as they try to showcase support for Ukraine's new leaders and reassure countries in Eastern Europe without antagonizing Moscow. I guess that means no talk of new "red lines in the sand" from the Obama administration. That was one strength Obama had: drawing lines in the sand.
It looks like Italy has an immigration problem of biblical dimensions. That was the exact wording of Italy's top naval officer. A record number of Mideastern and African migrants are fleeing their homelands; a record number 64,000 likely to reach Italy this year.
Top story, second section: new GM CEO knew about steering problems with the 2004 - 2007 Saturn Ion back in 2011; did nothing at the time, except, I guess, read the e-mails.
The Heartbleed bug that punctured the heart of the internet this week underscores a weakness in internet security: a good chunk of the internet is managed by four European coders and a former military consultant in Maryland. On top of this, it's my understanding that President Obama has decided to transfer operator authority of the internet from the US to the Europeans. He made that decision seemingly overnight; his dithering on the Keystone is now in its sixth year, or something like that.
The judge in Detroit's municipal bankruptcy case approved a troublesome settlement the city reached with two banks owed nearly $300 million.
Speaking of hackers (see Heartbleed, above), a federal appeals court on Friday vacated a high-profile 2012 computer crime conviction against Andrew Auernheimer in a ruling that dealt a serious -- but not fatal -- blow to the government's case against the 28-year-old hacker.
The Dickinson Press
North Dakota legislators are considering financial assurance that retired wind turbines will be taken down; land reclaimed. Sort of like requirements that the oil and gas industry has. Gee, what a concept.
