President Barack Obama's wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request. ...more

February 21, 2009

Time to get into the wheelbarrow business big time. ...more

February 14, 2009

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Judd Gregg said Friday that he pulled out of the job of commerce secretary after realizing that "I'm just going to be a little too conservative" for President Barack Obama's administration. ...more

February 13, 2009

Time to get into the wheelbarrow business big time. ...more

February 11, 2009

We all know Suncoast home prices have tumbled, but this hurts: The area lost $35.6 billion in home value in 2008, according a report released this morning from Seattle-based Zillow.com. ...more

February 6, 2009

We all know Bay area home prices have tumbled, but this hurts: The Tampa-St. Petersburg area lost $35.6 billion in home value in 2008, according a report released this morning from Seattle-based Zillow.com. ...more

February 3, 2009

Does Washington really need to do this? Many economists from across the ideological spectrum say yes, although an increasingly vocal group of free-market thinkers says no. ...more

February 2, 2009

Arne A. Gustafson of Hudson says modern equivalent of War Bonds needed to pay for economic recovery programs. ...more

January 31, 2009

America's roads, public transit and aviation have gotten worse in the past four years. Water and sewage systems are awful The basic physical backbone of American society is barely above failing, a report by top engineers says. ...more

January 30, 2009

A number of editorials in major and local newspapers repeat the mantra that the collective "we" caused many of the crises facing us today; that the collective "we" allowed our leaders to be corrupt; that "we" kept putting the same corrupt elected officials in government; that the collective "we" were spend thrifts, using credit cards to buy now and pay later, letting the bills pile up. And what about the credit card corporations? ...more

January 25, 2009