News Team | May 5, 2011
J P Donlon, Chief Executive.net | 5-4-2011 More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business. The charts and articles in this special report show how each state fares on the factors most essential [...]
News Team | April 7, 2011
Chris Bury, ABC news | 4-7-2011 Wisconsin’s topsy-turvy supreme court race — widely seen as a referendum on Republican governor Scott Walker — took another dramatic turn as incumbent justice David Prosser, a conservative, moved convincingly back into the lead. On Wednesday, liberal challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, an assistant attorney general, had appeared to eke out [...]
News Team | April 5, 2011
Paul D Ryan, WSJ opinion | 4-5-2011 Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether we cut $33 billion or $61 billion—that is, whether we shave 2% or 4% off of this year’s deficit—is important. It’s [...]
News Team | March 23, 2011
Molly Line, Fox News | 3-23-2011 The price at the pump is painful, but the agony doesn’t end there. Faced with soaring shipping costs, food suppliers and manufacturers are raising prices. Now, a trip to the local supermarket can be as shocking as a stop at the gas station. According to the U.S. Labor Department, [...]
News Team | March 3, 2011
Scott Lanman, Bloomberg | 3-3-2011 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a surge in U.S. government “activism,” including fiscal stimulus, housing subsidies and new regulations, is holding back the economic recovery. Increased bond issuance by the Treasury Department crowds out borrowers with the weakest credit ratings…… Read More
News Team | January 26, 2011
Calvin Woodward, Associated Press-Finance | 1-25-2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in [...]
News Team | January 25, 2011
Janet Hook, Wall Street Journal | 1-25-2011 House Budget Chairman Will Deliver Rebuttal to Obama, Craft Spending Cuts. When Rep. Paul Ryan delivers the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday, many viewers will get their first look at a man whom GOP leaders are trusting to manage a central [...]
News Team | January 24, 2011
Deanna Bellandi, Associated Press | 1-24-2011 CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois Appeals Court ruled Monday that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s name can’t appear on the ballot for Chicago mayor because he didn’t live in the city in the year before the election. The court threw Mr. Emanuel’s candidacy into doubt a [...]
News Team | January 19, 2011
Foxnews.com | 1-19-2011 WASHINGTON — The newly muscular House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s health care overhaul — a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama is certain to veto it should it somehow pass through Congress. The House passed the bill 245-189 with [...]
News Team | January 18, 2011
Newsmax.com | 1-18-2011 PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Six more states said Tuesday they would join a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s healthcare overhaul, meaning more than half of the country will challenge the law. The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law. The six [...]