The James Logan Courier

By Rebecca Soltau, Entertainment Editor

After a long, cold winter of never-ending pictures of picket lines amidst the palms of Hollywood, the ice coating the signs proclaiming award show cancellations and halted productions is finally beginning to thaw.

The seemingly endless writer’s strike may finally be coming to an end.

By Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama heads into Super Tuesday's voting with apparent momentum in several big states where Hillary Clinton has been the longtime leader, raising hopes in his camp for upsets that could give him the edge in delegates and enthusiasm coming out of the primaries' biggest voting day.

Republican John McCain, meanwhile, maintains solid leads in the Northeast, but faces scattered threats from Mitt Romney in the South, Midwest and particularly in California.

By Jeffry Bartash and Moming Zhou
MarketWatch (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Google Inc. has attacked Microsoft Corp.'s bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. as an effort to extend its software monopoly to the Internet, but Microsoft brushed off the criticism Monday, saying competition would benefit from its proposed deal.

Yahoo, meanwhile, said it has made "absolutely no decisions" about Microsoft's lavish $44.5 billion proposal. The company also said it will explore all options, one of which reportedly could be a partnership with Google.

By Jennifer Torres and Debbie Ly, Courier Staff Writers

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget plan threatens a ten percent cut to education is affecting public schools all over California. As a result, the budget for the James Logan Media Center has been frozen, leaving librarians and students to work with what they have, for now.