With the Harrisburg, Pa., City Council recently voting to have the city file for bankruptcy, Harrisburg’s mayor saying the filing is illegal, and the Pennsylvania governor approving a state takeove
With the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in mid-September having spread from New York to at least 100 major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, surely something is afoot. But what?
Three Milwaukee taxi drivers have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the city has outlawed competition in the taxi market, causing permits to rise in price from $85 to a staggering $150,000.
“Operation Twist” is the name that’s been given to the Federal Reserve’s program to move hundreds of billions of dollars of the Fed’s investment portfolio into longer-term debt, but critics say it'
Statewide smoking bans have “little or no measurable immediate effect” on the number of persons who die from heart attacks, according to a new report by medical researchers at two universities.
One of the nation’s leading taxpayer watchdog organizations and a liberal public interest organization have identified more than $1 trillion of cuts in federal government spending they believe have
The federal government could cut $380 billion of spending over five years to save taxpayers money and protect the environment, say a group of environmental and fiscal watchdog organizations that ca
Financial services firm Wells Fargo has announced it will test a $3 monthly fee for debit card users in select states, the result of new “interchange” regulations for debit cards that go into effec
The U.S. Postal Service says it may layoff 120,000 workers, remove collective bargaining restrictions, and rework empioyees' health insurance and pension programs for employees.
A $2.4 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling, $917 billion in spending “cuts,” and creation of a special congressional committee to look for another $1.5 trillion in “cuts.”
Steve Stanek, research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Budget & Tax News, debates a liberal, a moderate liberal, and a liberal reporter on the debt ceiling crisis in
Jacobs High School student Allison Leja of Algonquin, Illinois sued Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 after she was allegedly hit in the face in the gymnasium by a...
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