DETROIT — At Ford Motor Co. they called it "Blue," a team set up around the year 2000 to design an array of small, fuel-efficient cars to compete with the Japanese. ...more

November 8, 2008

Welcome to the new U.S. reverse osmosis economy. Trickle-down economics has been abrogated by trickle-up poverty. America has been conned into buying the proverbial "pig in a poke" and there isn't any lipstick on this one. ...more

November 8, 2008

The Energy Department will tell Congress in the coming weeks it should begin looking for a second permanent site to bury nuclear waste, or approve a large expansion of the proposed waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. ...more

November 7, 2008

On Election Night, I felt like the little girl staring at the television in the movie "Poltergeist." ...more

November 6, 2008

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she hopes Congress can return this month to approve spending measures to stimulate the depressed economy. She said much depends on finding common ground with the soon-to-depart Bush administration, which more often than not has been at odds with the Democratic majority. ...more

November 5, 2008

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Democrat Party's philosophy appears to me to be one of converting our country from a capitalist or consumer economy to a socialist or communist economy. ...more

October 22, 2008

Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. ...more

October 20, 2008

Given the uncertainty in the economy, I thought I would share with you my concern about Congress' recent efforts to address the faltering credit markets. ...more

October 14, 2008

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, acknowledging that he's an underdog in the race for president, hopes to put together a more aggressive campaign in the final 22 days to make a comeback nationally and in Florida. ...more

October 14, 2008

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, acknowledging that he's an underdog in the race for president, hopes to put together a more aggressive campaign in the final 22 days to make a comeback nationally and in Florida. ...more

October 13, 2008