63 links tagged “politics”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110
an. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A US Airways Group Inc. jetliner bound from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, went down in the Hudson River today less than three minutes after takeoff. All 148 passengers and five crew members were safe, the Federal A...
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Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey and the Czech Republic said gas shipments coming through Ukraine had stopped or fallen sharply.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Bank-Amer...
Bank of America today sent a letter to Republic Windows & Doors LLC indicating that the bank is prepared to provide a limited amount of additional loans to Republic to help fund a comprehensive resolution of Employee Claims.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/09/repo...
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday morning in Chicago on two counts each of federal corruption charges
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said today the state would suspend its business with Bank of America Corp. until the lender restores credit to the shuttered Republic Windows & Doors company in Chicago where workers are staging a sit-in.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...
Leah Fried, an organizer for the United Electrical Workers, said the company told the union that Bank of America had canceled its financing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/us/08chicago....
“They want the poor person to stay down,” said Silvia Mazon, 47, a mother of two who worked as an assembler here for 13 years and said she had never before been the sort to march in protests or make a fuss.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN074...
"Everybody can't live on Wall Street. Everybody can't live on Main Street. But all of us have lived on the side street, the working class," Ellis said. "I call it the working class because everything tells me there is no more middle class."
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081203/autos_uaw.html
The CEOs of all three automakers are heading to Washington for Congressional hearings Thursday and Friday on their request for a total of $34 billion in government loans to help them weather a recession and the worst auto sales climate in 26 years.
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2008/11/wh...
Already this year, with the Dow Jones industrial average down about 40 percent from its October 2007 high, some 4 percent of 401(k) participants have stopped putting money in their plan, according to consulting firm Hewitt Associates.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/dj...
The chief executives of General Motors Corp. (GM) and Ford Motor Co. (F) said Wednesday they wouldn't accept a $1 salary in exchange for government aid to their imperiled companies, as the head of the former Chrysler Corp. did a generation ago.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/deta...
So who gave the Biden pills to Sarah Palin? Now that it doesn't matter, the woman won't shut up.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449884,00.html
You know, I have -- faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator's hands -- this is what I always do. I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/05/nation/...
A nation that was founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and generations of racial strife delivered a smashing electoral college victory to the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, who forged a broad, multiracial, multiethnic coalition.
http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/ec_graph...
The graph above shows the current number of electoral votes for each candidate since Mar 22, The brown horizontal line shows the 270 electoral vote mark needed to be elected president. The gray vertical lines show the boundaries between the months.
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/...
President George W. Bush said on Friday the U.S. government was moving aggressively to address the financial markets crisis, but he acknowledged that anxiety was feeding on itself as stocks continued to plunge.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087
Kevin Smith, a spokesman for House Republican Leader John Boehner, said the speed with which Dodd's plan was put together was designed ``to deny Senator McCain a role in trying to craft a bipartisan solution.''
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/08/cbsne...
But in fact, the way the hockey rink was built was by raising taxes. Palin funded the project by pushing a special referendum that raised the sales tax by 25 percent. City hall records show the referendum was passed by twenty votes.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008...
Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/...
The high school that Bristol Palin attended for part of last year, Wasilla High School, teaches abstinence in health class, its principal said.
