March 3, 2011 The controversial Oneida Square roundabout has been approved. In a 7 to 2 vote, the Utica Common council gave the go ahead for the roughly $2 million project. It will utilize 85 percent federal, 10 percent state and 5 percent city dollars– but all the money will be spent by the city first and reimbursed later.
One just hopes it does not prove to be as confusing as the one pictured here.
January 9, 2011 Despite spending millions to produce a miniseries about the Kennedy family, the History Channel has decided not to air the series. Apparently it was a dramatic rather than historical series.
The multi-million dollar miniseries, which stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John and Jackie Kennedy, was History's most expensive project ever. But the network issued a statement late Friday saying that after watching the finished product, "we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand."
January 5, 2011 Our Greg's Grillbuster Trivia question during the noon hour on Greg's Grill saluted an historic date for women in politics and government.
January 1, 2011 While many Colleges and Universities are focused on the Bowl Games this time of the year, a small Michigan College gives us their annual list of the most annoying and overused words and phrases. Lake Superior State University has released their list of banished words on New Year's Eve for the last 34 years.
December 10, 2010 On this day, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to end the Russ-Japanese War.
December 10, 2010 It doesn't look like Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin will be exchanging Christmas cards anytime soon.
Us magazine reports that the two women did not become BFFs while taping an episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska. In fact, a source tells the mag that Kate "had a meltdown. She said the food and accommodations were terrible, and it was the worst trip she'd ever been on. The two of them didn't speak off camera.
