In the doghouse: Breaking his 72 hours of public silence following the Louisiana Tech football team’s bowl fiasco, university President Dan Reneau released a statement Wednesday afternoon in which he took responsibility for the situation. Reneau says the past few days have been “among the lowest and most disappointing” during his 26-year reign in Ruston. The Bulldogs were left without a bowl game despite being nationally ranked for nearly half the season and boasting a 9-3 regular-season record. The Shreveport Times has the full story here.
From shore to shore: Apple CEO Tim Cook is telling multiple media outlets the tech giant plans to spend $100 million on American manufacturing in 2013, in part to build “one of our existing Mac lines in the United States.” Apple moved its manufacturing to Asia in the late 1990s, and hasn’t built a computer in America in three years, according to a report in The New York Times. Cook says Apple will work with partners and that the manufacturing will be more than just the final assembly of parts.
Looking into the sun: Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert in Abu Dhabi, the Shams 1 solar project carries plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates. It will be the first, large-scale solar project in the oil-rich country when it is completed at the end of the year, and the largest of its kind in the Middle East. For those behind the project, it’s the surest sign yet that solar is coming to the region in a big way. Read the full feature from The Associated Press here.
