Completing a near-sweep for the USA, two Americans won the Nobel Prize for Economics today. One of the winners, Elinor Ostrom, is the first woman to ever be awarded the economics prize.
For more on the economics prize, click here.
While all the Nobel talk has been about President Obama’s Peace Prize, Americans quietly won nearly every category (except literature, which went to Germany’s Herta Muller). Five women won Nobels this year, a new record. For the complete list, click here.
- Big event coming up Friday in Redding: The Rising Stars Gala to benefit Schreder Planetarium and the Whiskeytown Environmental School. Engineering/construction firm CH2M Hill is hosting the gala, which runs from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Cascade Theatre. Music by the Straight Ahead Big Band, no-host bar, food, auctions and more. For tickets, call Diana Dore at 229-3333 or send e-mail to Diana.dore@ch2m.com.
- Headline of the Day: I’ve been tracking page-views here at The Corner Booth and, based on the most popular stories, have come up with the perfect headline to draw large numbers of typical Corner Booth readers: Mystery Blob Gets a Flu Vaccine While Smoking a Hookah. Go figure.
- If you’ve been following the medical marijuana debate, then you’ll be interested in what’s happening down in Los Angeles. District Attorney Steve Cooley has declared that most marijuana collectives’ dispensaries are operating illegally, and has pledged to begin prosecutions. For the full story, click here.
- Local band Manzanita plays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Post Office Saloon in downtown Redding. Wednesday is also Spaghetti Night at the Post Office. Or, you could hit Hamburger Night at Maritime Seafood & Grill, then stroll over to the Post Office for after-dinner drinks and music.
- NFL: Bad weekend for Northern California as the 49ers fall 45-10 to Atlanta and the hapless Raiders lose to the NY Giants, 44-7. Who would’ve ever thought that Jim Dyar’s Denver Broncos would be 5-0? With Kyle Orton at QB? The other 5-0 teams: Colts, Giants, Vikings. The SAINTS are at 4-0 and resting on a bye week. The Niners get a bye next week. Looks like they could use it.
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