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By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — The Girl Scout cookie can’t seem to catch a break. Under fire in years past for including trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and palm oil in its cookies, the Girl Scouts’ current cookie selling season is under fire because of policies [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN CNN) — While the Bible Belt is known for its devotion to traditional values, Southerners don’t do so well on one key family value: They are more likely to get divorced than people living in the Northeast. Southern men and women had higher rates of divorce [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Katy Chamberlin says she’s a better driver than most people she sees on the road. The San Francisco human resources specialist believes she’s more observant than the average driver, noting that she’s never caused a traffic accident, but has been rear-ended twice by [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Americans snicker over the sordid details of former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Internet escapades. But they pity his wife, Huma Abedin. They see an accomplished and beautiful woman betrayed by her husband’s Twitter posts. And she’s pregnant? The details just get worse and worse. Abedin [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer NOT SO LONG ago, Wall Street financiers and dot-com creators ruled Manhattan, while ironworkers and other construction workers were often portrayed as lazy, overpaid union members. On Sept. 11, everything changed. As Gotham’s white-collar residents watched helplessly, blue-collar men and women used their skills to tackle the rubble of the World [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Hundreds of people flocked to the Winter Garden last night to see the newest collection of plans for the World Trade Center site, in an impromptu opening before today’s official public display of the exhibition featuring nine designs. Commuters on their way to the subway stopped to peruse and ponder [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Remembering sunny days spent playing with her two children outside the World Trade Center, Vivian Hung hopes those in charge of reconstruction will listen to the opinions of all of lower Manhattan. Hung, who emigrated from China’s Canton province in 1991, said through an interpreter that she worries about the impact [...] Critics: Public had little say on transportation projects By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer The selection last week of architect Daniel Libeskind’s design for the World Trade Center site capped an intensely public process, marked by large meetings, passionate debates by everyone from scholars to schoolchildren, and thousands of comments from ordinary New Yorkers. Despite that civic outpouring, [...] The Supreme Court hands gays a win in the struggle between tolerance and tradition U.S. News & World Report By Katia Hetter From the last century’s struggles over slavery to this one’s battles over civil rights, abortion and freedom of speech, the Supreme Court has been a barometer of the nation’s culture clashes. Now, by delivering an unexpectedly [...] By Katia Hetter, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Though San Francisco’s days as an industrial center are gone, at least one product made here still has an international reputation — Anchor Steam Beer. But now top city planners want to allow housing to be built directly alongside Anchor Brewing Co.’s small manufacturing complex on the slope of [...] |
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