When the Obama administration awarded tax credits to promote clean energy, the $125 million taken home by Ohio companies was nearly four times the average that went to other states.

The National Park Service anticipated a “break-in period” in which problems would need to be addressed, spokeswoman Carol Johnson said, but no one expected the amount of algae that is there now.

Romney has been appropriately chided for dangling the promise of lower rates — with unpleasant details left intentionally blank. But there are even more fundamental flaws with his approach.

Mitt Romney’s Cayman Island hideouts and unusually stuffed IRAs get most of the attention, but the main explanation for his low tax rate isn’t at all nefarious: 80 percent of his income comes from investments, and the top tax rate on capital gain and investment income is 15 percent. That’s compared to a top tax bracket of 35 percent on ordinary income. Why does investment income get this big bonus? 

— J.K. Rowling on why she abandoned the fantasy genre of her “Harry Potter” books to write “The Casual Vacancy,” an adult novel set in contemporary Britain. “There are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy,” she told the New Yorker, and she wanted a change of pace.

The 2012-13 TV season officially kicked off Monday, and NBC — armed this time with “The Voice” — more than doubled its performance, causing its competition to take some major hits.