For 33 years, Barbara Katz has enjoyed sitting with her husband and gazing into the backyard of their hilltop home, located in an area of historic houses in north Baltimore. She loves the neighborhood for its quiet charm and takes pleasure in the numerous foxes, birds and deer that roam outside her window. Then, last month, she found a notice in her mailbox that threatened to change all that: The neighbors wanted to put in an array of solar panels just beyond her back fence. Go to story #1

HOUSTON -- Gov. Rick Perry's failed bid at the Republican nomination for president seems to have cut a once formidable political force down to size in his own state, possibly giving Texas green groups an opportunity they've been looking for. Go to story #2