October 24, 2007

The Rockies have won 21 of their last 22, but do not have as much postseason experience or as much star power as the bigger-market and higher-paid Red Sox.

The State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, refused on Tuesday to hold a vote on a key part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan for handling trash and recycling in Manhattan.

General Motors is staking a large chunk of its credibility on the Volt, a concept car that cannot be built without significant improvements in battery technology.

The amount of money the department pays to private contractors has soared, but it has added few officials to oversee the contracts.

Neither the government of Mexico nor the high priests of that country’s cuisine are going to get an apology from me. In the Lone Star state, Tex-Mex is as authentic as any food can be.

Miami Coach Cam Cameron finds himself in the middle of a man-made disaster that will be difficult for any team, especially the floundering Dolphins, to recover from.

BP is preparing to settle accusations that it was indifferent to safety and manipulated energy prices.

For the first time in nearly 20 years the Metropolitan Opera presented Verdi’s breakthrough early masterpiece in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production.

In China, where coal is king, the government’s push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.

If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start.

Judith Jones may not be the mother of the revolution in American taste. But she remains its most productive midwife, and now, its historian.

Congress said it would investigate business practices at nursing homes owned by private investment groups, after staffing at many of the homes was shown to have been cut severely.