Yesterday Boeing performed the first test flight of its new 787 model jet, billed at the most innovative in its fleet. The AP reports on the 787's re...
AP | GEORGE TIBBITS | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business
EVERETT, Wash. — Boeing's new 787 jetliner finally got airborne Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world's first commercial plane...
Marcy Winograd | Posted 12.19.2009 | Los Angeles
We need a Green New Deal that would fund jobs to develop renewables in solar and wind, and build light rail in all the major metropolitan areas, particularly sprawling Los Angeles.
Richard Stearns | Posted 12.07.2009 | Impact
Nowhere is the smart power consensus more evident than on the solid, common ground where America's business and humanitarian communities find themselves today.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
Southwest Airlines just announced that it will present a "green plane" at its annual media day. What does "green plane" mean to the air carrier?
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Today, President Barack Obama held a press conference in Landover, MD to announce the administration's plans for a, "New Small Business Lending Initia...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed levying multimillion-dollar fines against United Airlines and US Airways for safety violations, including flying a plane after mechanics stuffed shop towels into an engine.
The agency said it has proposed a $5.4 million fine against US Airways of Tempe, Ariz., for operating eight planes on a total of 1,647 flights from October 2008 to January 2009 in violation of safety directives or the company's own maintenance rules.
The agency also said it is proposing a $3.8 million fine against United of Chicago for operating one of its Boeing 737 aircraft on more than 200 flights with shop towels covering openings near where oil collects in the bottom of the engine instead of using protective caps required by the carrier's maintenance procedures.
Under FAA rules, the airlines have 30 days to present mitigating evidence before the agency can impose the fines. It's not unusual for fines to be reduced as the result of negotiations.
The hefty fines reflect the large number of flights that were allowed to carry passengers in violation of safety requirements, FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said. The agency doesn't know how many passengers were on the flights, she said.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The prize came at a crucial juncture in the war in Afghanistan, and it seems clear why Obama was selected to be the next Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The folks in Oslo wanted to force him to make the "right" choice.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
In a time of crisis, Republicans begin to eat their own. The infighting has been going on for months and has occasionally touched the national security establishment.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The New York Times reports Friday that due to Obama administration cutbacks in spending on weapons systems, defense manufacturer Boeing has intensifie...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
While sharing his vision of a more peaceful world with the UN and demanding big Pentagon cuts, Obama has also been lobbying Brazil to buy warplanes from shrinking defense giant Boeing.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Democrats have joined Republicans in voting to "Defund ACORN," yet they have done nothing to stop Blackwater's ongoing taxpayer-funded crusade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
David Segal | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Former Washington governor Gary Locke has worked hard to minister to the needs of the hometown corporation. Since being appointed as commerce secretary, he has an even higher perch from which he can do so.
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.
Jim Arkedis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The WTO's ruling late last week in a case involving Boeing and European arch-rival Airbus is a big and welcome victory that shows rule-based trade works.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military op...
Chris Gunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
According to information in the Federal Procurement Data System, eight of the top ten recipients of federal small business contracts were actually large businesses or divisions of large businesses.
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
DALLAS — Federal officials say a maintenance company hired by Southwest Airlines used unapproved parts for repairs on some jets. The parts will...
John T. Halliday | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology
You feel silly; you Googled the odds of dying in a plane crash: one in thirteen million. You'll take those. But then again, pilots don't call these 'Scarebuses' for nothing.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
When you look closely at Obama's policies towards small businesses you start to think its just a matter of time before he loads small business owners into crowded train cars headed for prison camps.
SpaceWar.com | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home
Amid continuing tension over political upheaval in Iran, the U.S. Defense Department says it wants to accelerate production of a 30,000-pound "ultra-l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The F-22 stealth fighter jets may no longer be needed, but its manufacturers, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, are lobbying aggressively to keep them in th...
Michael Rose | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
Fifty years ago today Los Angeles experienced the meltdown at the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) that, except for blind luck, didn't become LA's Chernobyl.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
It seems to me that the Pentagon, the administration and the military industrial complex are all treating cyberspace like any other battle domain.
Posted 12.16.2009 | Denver