This appeared in my e-mail inbox last week and was verified by snopes.com. With all the talk about the importance of green living, I thought readers would find this interesting.

Though arguably essential to America’s way of living, none of the rights we have come without a price, especially the Clean Energy Bill of Rights.

Well, there were probably close to a dozen local HVAC companies with displays set up, one even having a unit running inside a tent that had cold air strips in front. Fair sponsors said attendance was up this year as the economy prevented many longer vacation trips in the summer.

In 2004, soon after delivering my daughter at Cedarville University in central Ohio, she told me about this interesting computer application called Facebook. It was a new way of interacting with other students on campus and other universities.

However, it wasn’t until September 2008 when the Air Conditioning Contractors of America National Capital Chapter (ACCA-NCC) invited Maryland’s Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton to speak at a monthly meeting, when the two states really began to patch things up with regard to the HVAC industry.

I’m putting the final touches on a story about contractors who are acquiring struggling contractors in these challenging economic times.

Sadly, not all those who left the Senate for the 2009 summer recess will return Sept. 8, but nevertheless, the Senate will return and they have their work cut out for them.

You probably communicate with your co-workers in a variety of ways: face-to-face, telephone (landline or cell), written communications, (internal memo or e-mail) … ahh!

The editors at The NEWS know enough to know we don’t know it all, so we are opening up the blog section to some real experts - contractors.

I not sure what it means when topics I’ve been writing about end up being made fun of in the Sunday comics.