General Motors Corp. says its "jobs bank" program will end Monday. The program gives union workers at the Detroit automakers most of their pay and benefits while they are laid off. ...more

January 28, 2009

The nation's already-strained job market was hit repeatedly Monday, as employer after employer announced job cuts ...more

January 27, 2009

Incumbent Frank Guglielmi won re-election as a supervisor in the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District by a margin of 1,144 votes over his opponent, Dick Miller, in Friday's landowner election. ...more

January 27, 2009

Most congressional Democrats say the quickest way to save homeowners like Troy Butler of Saginaw, Mich., is to let them declare bankruptcy and allow judges to dictate new mortgage terms. ...more

January 25, 2009

Rising displeasure with the Troubled Assets Relief Program was apparent this week when the U.S. House voted 270 to 155 not to spend the second round of TARP money, even though representatives knew the vote was symbolic and wouldn't stop the $350 billion from being spent. ...more

January 24, 2009

For the first time since the Great Depression, General Motors cannot call itself the world's largest automaker. Its sales fell behind Toyota in 2008, a year when GM celebrated its 100th anniversary and narrowly avoided a bankruptcy filing amid a significant downturn in the economy. ...more

January 22, 2009

The Chevrolet dealership that replaced Bill Heard at Interstate 4 and Park Road came out of the starting gate with a bang, leading all but two locations in the number of Chevy sales during the first week of January. ...more

January 21, 2009

This is not only a new year. It also is the birth of the Union of the Socialist States of America (USSA). Reminds one of the failed union of socialist Soviet Republics (USSR), doesn't it? No, I'm not referring to an association of American states, such as Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia. I have in mind what was once the economically responsible and stable, capitalistic, free-enterprise, United States of America. ...more

January 11, 2009

$266.9 billion Amount the Treasury Department has disbursed from the $700 billion financial rescue program, according to an announcement Thursday ...more

January 9, 2009

It was an awful December for carmakers, but the fortunes were most terrible for Chrysler LLC, which said Monday that sales plunged 53 percent. ...more

January 6, 2009