Challenges In The News 07/25/08

QUESTION: What has been your greatest challenge as a father? What did you learn from it?

WITH three key players out, the Inverell Highlanders have a challenge ahead of them, coach Ron Walters says.

Thailand's prime minister and seven of his Cabinet ministers staved off a parliamentary challenge Friday, easily winning a series of no-confidence votes after a debate that saw them accused of incompetence, mismanagement and yielding national sovereignty.

FOUR fundraisers for a Polegate-based charity are training hard for a 1,000 mile bike ride challenge. (26/06/2008 08:14:32)

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it difficult for utility companies to successfully challenge costly, long-term energy supply contracts negotiated during the West Coast energy crisis seven years ago.

Millions of discarded mobile phones and computers are posing a "major challenge" to human health, the chief of the United Nations Environment Programme said Thursday.

Multnomah County approved a plan Thursday to build the largest solar installation in the Northwest on the roofs of government buildings. The deal could open the floodgates to more of the same depending on the outcome of a legal challenge.

Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 11:47 a.m. JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (AP) -- A judge considers a legal challenge to a proposed ballot measure affecting Missouri's casino industry.
Environmentalists plan a court challenge to the state air board's approval of a new coal-fired power plant in far southwest Virginia.

A split Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied a Pleasant Hill woman's challenge of a city ordinance. The appeals case also sheds some light on Pleasant Hill's ultimately unsuccessful effort to retain City Administrator Robert Fagen.

The High Court has refused to hear a challenge to the constitutional legality of the Federal Government spending $22 million on Catholic World Youth Day (WYD).