Estate Tax Uncertainty Unsettles Small Businesses

News Team | June 29, 2011

Shannon Bream, Fox News | 6-29-2011 The estate tax has been a part of the United States revenue system since 1916, and has soared as high as 77 percent. Over the years, it’s become a complicated issue for many small, family-owned businesses. That’s because when an individual dies, what he or she leaves behind is [...]

China eyes Canada oil, US’s energy nest egg

News Team | June 26, 2011

Rob Gillies, Associated Press | 6-26-2011 CALGARY, Alberta – In the northern reaches of Alberta lies a vast reserve of oil that the U.S. views as a pillar of its future energy needs. China, with a growing appetite for oil that may one day surpass that of the U.S., is ready to spend the dollars [...]

GOP Governors Are Showing the Way

News Team | June 25, 2011

Bob McDonnell, WSJ op-ed | 6-25-2011 State Republicans are tackling the issues voters want addressed. That will be a major asset for the party’s presidential nominee in 2012. Democrats say otherwise, but Republican governors and their records will be a major asset to the GOP in 2012. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s monumental achievement this [...]

Judges sharply challenge healthcare law

News Team | June 8, 2011

David G. Savage, LA Times – Washington Bureau | 6-8-2011 Reporting from Atlanta— A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year’s healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional. Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal [...]

FCC Agrees to Take ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Off the Books

News Team | June 8, 2011

Stephen Clark , FoxNews.com | 6-8-2011 Under GOP pressure, the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to strike from its books an outdated yet still controversial regulation of political speech on the airwaves known as the Fairness Doctrine. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a letter to a House Republican leader this week that the agency’s [...]

Pierce County Districting plans

PierceGOP | June 8, 2011

Every ten years the United States Census Bureau conducts a census or count of the United State’s population. ‘Once every 10 years, Americans stand up to be counted. Downtown and out-of-town, in the mountains and on the farms, we speak up and let our governments know that we intend to be represented in the decisions [...]