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  • Tech: Gadget News and Reviews
    Mar 30, 2012 — Washington Post
    Thanks. pegoraror: Yes, and have done so for several years now. If I purchase this, will my current MS Office 2003 run on it? pegoraror: Yes. Thanks. pegoraror: You should have no trouble meeting that price limit.
  • Debating an extension of the Bush tax cuts
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Below are responses from Alan S. Blinder, Mark Zandi, Diane Lim Rogers, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Leonard S. Burman and Robert Greenstein. Besides, the economy performed admirably during the 1990s when upper-income households paid these same higher tax rates. Everyone knows that our income tax code is a mess.
  • Five myths about the Bush tax cuts
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Should the tax cuts expire, as some Democrats have said? As the CBO notes, most Bush tax cut dollars go to higher-income households, and these top earners don't spend as much of their income as lower earners. In 2007, well after the tax cuts took effect, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP.
  • Small businesses: Measuring their power and their problems
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Those firms generated about one-third of the new jobs, according to the study. Aquas, which provides engineering and information technology services, has 32 employees.
  • Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative
    Aug 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    Cuccinelli's mother dabbled in Democratic precinct politics. Cuccinelli's letter caused an uproar and prompted Gov. The governor simultaneously endorsed Cuccinelli's legal reasoning.Cuccinelli sounds contrite.
  • 'Big step' made in light rail progress
    Jul 31, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    ...matters. Metro acting president and CEO George Greanias described the approval as a "big step" for the project, which will serve as the "spine" of the agency's regional mass transit plan, linking rail, buses and park-and-ride facilities. With 19 stations, the University line will include stops near Greenway Plaza, University of St. Thomas, Texas Southern University and UH. It will terminate at the Eastwood Transit Center just northeast of UH. The transit agency projects...
  • 'Revolving door' is still spinning for lawmakers, lobbyists
    Jul 31, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Kohl is the chairman of the Special Aging Committee. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Mulhern counts former Rep. Russ Feingold during the lawmaker's first Senate run.
  • A better foundation
    Jul 31, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    Buyers who qualified for the up to $8,000 credit have until Sept. 30 to close on their homes. While new home sales took a nose dive after the government incentive expired, activity among buyers is looking up again, according to David Jarvis, Houston director of Metrostudy, a residential consulting and research firm that surveys single-family and townhouse builders across the area. "The mood among builders is much improved," he said. The smaller townhouse market, however,...
  • AG wrests price cut from Cape Wind
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Boston Globe
    Both Coakley and some opponents demanded that Cape Wind reveal projected construction costs and how much profit the developers anticipate making.
  • Amerigroup reports 36% jump in profit in 2nd quarter
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    ...the revenue growth to an acquisition in New Jersey and its launch of a long-term care program in Tennessee. Amerigroup said membership in its health plans at the end of June stood at 1.9 million, an increase of 2 percent from March and 10 percent higher than a year earlier. The company does business in 11 states, including Virginia. Truess and Amerigroup chairman and CEO James G. Carlson...
  • Angry Stewart earns Pocono pole
    Jul 31, 2010 — The News and Observer
    It's his second pole of the season. His teammate Jimmie Johnson is second with 76. Another Brickyard race?
  • Arizona's Law, Activist Judges and Anchor Babies
    Jul 31, 2010 — New York Times
    But nothing in S.B. 1070 changes the rules for registration; the Arizona law merely confirms those rules in state law. Judge Bolton alleges that the Arizona provision “alters the penalties” in the federal law, without disclosing that the Arizona law lowers them. In March, Graham walked away from the table, calling immigration reform “dead” after health care reform passed.
  • At the All-City Swim Meet, one 7-year-old is fighting a rare battle
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Wisconsin State Journal
    We've got to do something.' " Surgery on July 1, 2009, removed an obstruction the size of a garbanzo bean from Riley's airway. Having competed in just two of the three swim meets required to attend All-City, post-surgical cases of pneumonia and mononucleosis sidelined Riley dangerously close to this weekend's competition.
  • Book Review - Cocaine Nation - By Tom Feiling
    Jul 31, 2010 — New York Times
    During cocaine’s postwar renaissance, mafiosi based in Cuba met demand in the United States, the world’s largest cocaine market. Snuffed out in one area, cocaine surges in another. “Americans consume roughly 290 metric tons of cocaine a year,” Feiling writes, a load that “could be carried across the U.S.-Mexican border in just 13 trucks.
  • BRIEF
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Palm Beach Post
    It shows many consumers cut spending in 2009 by curbing telecommunications services. The Federal Communications Commission reported approximately 16.2 million wireless handsets in use in Florida as of December 2008. The PSC estimates there were 1.8 million Florida residential VoIP subscribers as of December 2009. The pay telephone industry also noted a decline.
  • Candidates diverge on education, taxes
    Jul 31, 2010 — Pioneer Press
    No state has opted out of No Child Left Behind," she said.
  • CBO's deficit forecast shows need for early action
    Jul 31, 2010 — Washington Post
    The scary part, as outlined in the CBO's new issue brief, "Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis," is the Matterhorn-like incline of what happens next. The more realistic scenario -- that the tax cuts are extended, the alternative minimum tax is indexed, Medicare payments to physicians are not dramatically reduced -- would bring the debt level to dizzying heights. Rising interest payments would require higher taxes or lower spending.
  • Centier comes back strong
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Times
    Centier held $2.04 billion of assets. Centier, the 115-year-old privately held institution founded in Whiting, said it remained "well capitalized" according to regulatory standards. Centier has 45 Northwest Indiana locations, including two retail centers in Plymouth and business banking centers in Fort Wayne, Mishawaka and Lafayette. The bank will open its first full-service retail branch in Lafayette in August. Earlier this year, Centier received the No.
  • Democrats and Republicans Receive August Instructions
    Jul 31, 2010 — New York Times
    Sessions’s memo also declared that Democrats have ignored the voters’ wishes over the last year and a half.
  • Early retirement's no fun financially when it's not your idea
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    Montanaro said. "If you're younger, you'll want to seek out a private health insurance policy or seek some form of employment that provides health care coverage." You also may be able to hop on your spouse's employer health insurance coverage. Shomer maintained his employer health coverage through COBRA, but after that ran out, his prudent financial planning enabled him to self-insure his health care expenses until he qualified for Medicare at age 65. "When COBRA ran...
  • EDITORIAL
    Jul 31, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
    He understands local budgets, helped lower Tampa's property tax rate and knows how frustrating Tallahassee mandates can be for local governments. The Tribune endorses Russ Patterson in the District 60 Democratic Party Primary. District 61 Rep. In District 67, the Tribune endorses Greg Steube. Candidates not endorsed by The Tampa Tribune are invited by the editorial board to write rebuttals.
  • Federal estimate shows U.S. economy appears to be slowing
    Jul 31, 2010 — Richmond Times-Dispatch
    ...quarter GDP estimate turned out to have understated growth by 1 percentage point. The economy, they now estimate, grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in that quarter. On top of that, they said, their regular reviews showed their estimates for economic growth in 2007, 2008 and 2009 also were wrong -- at least for now. The economy in 2007, they now think, grew by 1.9 percent, or 9.5 percent less than the 2.1 percent rate they had revised previously. In 2008, the economy...
  • GDP report: Economic growth slows with 2.4 percent rate in second quarter
    Jul 31, 2010 — Washington Post
    The bad news is that the growth was below the long-term trend rate at which the U.S. economy expands and is not strong enough to drive down unemployment. The retailer was expecting the economy to improve, but it hasn't happened. Kebe and her team have stopped carrying the most expensive children's clothing lines, such as Simonetta, and are instead selling less-costly ones such as Eliane et Lena.
  • Group
    Jul 31, 2010 — Las Vegas Review-Journal
    ...pipeline across more than 1,000 rivers and streams from Opal, Wyo., to Malin, Ore. A subsidiary of El Paso Corp. (NYSE:EP) , of Houston, plans to construct a 42-inch-diameter pipeline across Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Oregon. It's scheduled to go into operation next year, according to the company's website. The center says the pipeline would cut across 209 streams where federally protected fish, including Lahontan cutthroat, live. Lahontan cutthroat, a threatened trout in...
  • Group protests Arizona's anti-immigration law with Diamondbacks in town
    Jul 31, 2010 — Newsday
    Others held Kendrick in contempt for making donations to state Republican candidates. During the game across the street, two men waving Mexican flags ran onto the field during the top of the seventh.
  • Growth slowed to 2.4% in spring quarter
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Washington Times
    Bandholz said. "While we do not expect a double-dip recession, we think that economic growth will slow even further from its already modest pace," he said.
  • Harris Bank adds another former MandI executive
    Jul 31, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Harris came into the state market by buying Ozaukee Bank in Cedarburg and New Berlin's Merchants and Manufacturers Bancorporation -- the parent company of Lincoln State Bank -- two years ago. Before that, he was with M&I for two decades and held the title of senior vice president, Harris said. With 12 branches in the Madison area, Harris now has 50 altogether in Wisconsin.
  • Immigration divides conservatives among GOP
    Jul 31, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    There's no question about it," Berman said. "The right in Texas, the Baptist, the Methodists, the Episcopalians, the people on the right, just don't want to see that happen.
  • In Germany, the economic crisis weighs heavily on the poor
    Jul 31, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    For now, he's got fewer colleagues, is assigned more tasks and is earning about the same amount as a few years ago. He hears talk of more belt-tightening.
  • Jacksonville police union, retiree group go on offense defending pensions
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Florida Times-Union
    Employees Pension Plan, city spokeswoman Misty Skipper said. Another 1,900 are collecting from the Police and Fire Pension Fund, fund executive director John Keane said. Between new retirees and members dying, Keane is expecting 400 to 600 more people to be getting pension checks in 10 years than receive them today. No estimate was available from the city pension plan, Skipper said. Advertisements by both the police union and the retirees focus on the Social Security available...
  • Light-rail bridge piling on private land, lawsuit alleges
    Jul 31, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    Additionally, HRT contends Welton Real Estate has no trespassing case because Welton never objected to the work and allowed construction to continue.
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