Young scallops thriving off mid-Atlantic coast
24 May 2012, 11:13 am
Young scallops are thriving off the mid-Atlantic coast, boding well for the catch in three years of Virginia watermen plying the waters of what's considered the most valuable wild scallop fishery in the world.

Labor primaries an intellectually lazy answer
16 May 2012, 1:22 am
If you can manage three terms as premier of NSW or Victoria without primary elections, maybe the problem isn't the process after all, writes Luke Walladge, a long-time ALP member and former staffer and campaigner. Read more on the blog...

Shellharbour meeting dredges up ugly past
15 May 2012, 1:41 pm
Shellharbour City Council will wade back into the issues surrounding a controversial court case that was a major factor in the sacking of the previous council.

Operator Armchair System offers 270° rotating base.
11 May 2012, 7:54 am
FSRHDG is fully adjustable operator armchair system designed for machine and industrial cabin applications, as well as cab-operated equipment such as cranes, mining dredges and shovels. It houses mill duty master switches and joysticks, with full line of output devices including potentiometer, transformer, encoder and CAN Bus. Mechanical 4 step suspension employs fully hydraulic and spring ...

Suit dredges up turmoil in Hemmingford
8 May 2012, 7:51 am
The ravaged forest has mostly grown back, but the scar left on bucolic Hemmingford just keeps getting nastier.

In which Downtown Josh Brown solves the volume riddle
7 May 2012, 6:09 pm
"Where is everybody?"

Buzzfeed dredges Up Mitt Romney’s 1981 Disorderly Persons Arrest
7 May 2012, 12:32 pm
Buzzfeed 's Andrew Kaczynski continued his site's curation of the Mitt Romney Awkward Moment Museum today by posting an account of the presumptive GOP nominee's "little reported" disorderly persons arrest from 1981. We actually did report on that incident in November , but Kaczynski is right, the mainstream media has so far ignored that arrest, as well as the other incident we reported on then ...

South Main plan dredges up old parking debate
2 May 2012, 7:23 am
The Waynesville Board of Aldermen approved a revitalization plan for South Main Street last week despite a dispute over one aspect of the proposed design scheme.

No gold rush on Oregon's federal lands even with record prices
30 April 2012, 8:38 pm
Active mining claims in national forests On an active claim, a miner has paid a $125 annual maintenance fee. Rogue River-Siskiyou: 1,173 Wallowa-Whitman: 1,020 Malheur: 88 Umatilla: 43View full sizeRichard Cockle/The OregonianRegional geologist Jason D. McClaughry of the Oregon Department...

Profiles in Resilience: DSC Dredge
30 April 2012, 9:20 am
By Seyi Fayanju by Shawn Stokes   While doing research for a Duke University study on jobs in Gulf Coast restoration, I met an affable entrepreneur named Robert “Bob” Wetta. He is the president of DSC Dredge , a small business founded by his father in the early 1990s. DSC Dredge manufactures portable hydraulic dredges for use in mining, navigation, and environmental restoration. The family-owned ...