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CHICAGO Journal Communications, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Thursday reported its fourth-quarter 2005 net earnings fell 26.5% to $16.7 million, principally because of falling telecommunications business, tough broadcast comparables with 2004, and Hurricane Katrina damage that shuttered a commercial printing plant. Publishing revenue, including the daily paper, decreased 3.8% to $85.4 million compared to $88.7 million in the 2004 fourth quarter. Operating earnings from publishing decreased 14.6% to $9.4 million compared to $11.1 million, which Journal Communications said reflected $2.2 million in pre-tax costs of closing the hurricane-damaged printing plant. At the Journal Sentinel, executives said in the conference...

Our man in science goes to Congress I am testifying at an oversight hearing before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy" today, Feb. 4, 2004. I was asked to submit testimony about how and why environmental predictions have gone wrong. What follows is the written version of my testimony. (I get a whole five minutes to speak.) My name is Ronald Bailey. I am the science correspondent for the public policy magazine Reason and I have written and reported on scientific and environmental policy for more than two decades for...