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  • Barroso Says Infrastructure is Key to E.U. Recovery
    Sep 8, 2010 — New York Times
    Barroso said. “The unemployment rate, while still much too high, has stopped increasing.”In pushing the notion of European bonds, Mr. Barroso is embracing an idea championed unsuccessfully by some of his predecessors. Barroso’s political opponents accused him of lack of leadership.
  • CMU professor reflects on time at National Science Foundation
    Sep 8, 2010 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    She's just back from three years as assistant director of the National Science Foundation, presiding over Computer and Information Science and Engineering. During your time there, you guided federal funding for computer science research. We are inventing prosthetic devices for disabled veterans and so on that can be controlled by their neural activity.
  • Latino Republican walking a tightrope in Nevada race
    Sep 8, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    Several states, including Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, have grown more competitive in presidential elections as the Latino population swelled. A majority of Latinos initially supported the initiative. Latinos are about 12 percent of the electorate.Sandoval has taken to the Spanish-language airwaves to trumpet the historic nature of his candidacy.
  • Mideast peace: the problem Obama chose
    Sep 8, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    As President Clinton's special representative, Mitchell brokered the agreements and established the framework that ultimately produced the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland's militant republican leaders identified closely with the struggle against apartheid. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams deeply admired Nelson Mandela and was inspired by his example.
  • Obama to assail GOP vision in Ohio
    Sep 8, 2010 — Politico
    Then he’ll recommend permanently extending the tax credit to ensure jobs created would continue to benefit in the future. Every $1 spent on the tax credit translates into $2 in benefits for the economy, officials said. And the net cost over 10 years totals $30 billion. White House officials acknowledge they are operating in a limited time frame.
  • Obama's success rests in the truth
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Boston Globe
    And forcefully. A year is an epoch in American politics, two an eon, so it's easy to forget that Obama took office among some of the most challenging circumstances in modern memory. If he tries to provide the proper context for all this, Obama will no doubt run into the Republicans' self-excusing attempt to pretend that fiscal history began in January of 2009. Indeed, one can almost hear that favorite GOP refrain: Quit blaming George Bush.
  • ODOT looks for possible funds from Obama's $50 billion transportation plan
    Sep 8, 2010 — Tulsa World
    Department of Transportation are preparing for a possible influx of federal dollars to improve the nation's roads. ODOT director Gary Ridley met with division engineers and designers Tuesday to discuss what road and bridge projects could be expedited if Congress approves President Barack Obama's $50 billion transportation plan. Ridley said the department would review ODOT's eight-year construction plan and its asset preservation plan for possible projects. "Those two...
  • Oklahoma highway officials to identify shovel-ready projects
    Sep 8, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
    Transportation officials in 2009 identified shovel-ready projects from its long-range plan. Oklahoma's share of federal stimulus money has funded 274 projects. Contractors have been paid $376 million, or about 81 percent of the stimulus money. Ridley said he would prefer Congress approve a long-term funding bill for transportation.
  • Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Drew Voros column
    Sep 7, 2010 — Contra Costa Times
    Businesses will get tax breaks on capital expenditures and for research and development. The department still has more than $15 billion that has not been allocated from its original $45 billion in stimulus funds. This week's economic proposals just send more gas into the stalled motor. Drew Voros is the business editor.
  • District 6 candidate Murphy Green says he has economic recovery plan
    Sep 7, 2010 — Montgomery Advertiser
    ...economic development plan in District 6. And those small problems like abandoned houses are going to take care of themselves," Green said. Green said he is most con­cerned about economic stabili­ty, the educational structure and crime in the district. Green, who has lived on Wimbledon Road for eight years, is a team member at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama and an associate min­ister at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church. Green also has volunteered for about a year...
  • Election season gets started
    Sep 7, 2010 — The News and Observer
    National Republicans will focus on spending by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress. Democrats will say the economy turned bad when the GOP was in charge. But whoever wins control of the state legislature this year will draw new district lines for the legislature and Congress.
  • Former Obama campaign manager to speak at Crest
    Sep 7, 2010 — The Sacramento Bee
    We made the decision as a family that we weren't willing to do that for six straight years." Thomma reports that Plouffe returned to school. He had dropped out of the University of Delaware in 1989 to jump on the campaign trail, so Plouffe hit the books again, earning his bachelor's degree in political science. It does provide a few. " Michiko Kakutani, New York Times: While Mr.
  • Market Beat: As election races begin, Wall Street keeps eye on finish line
    Sep 7, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    A report Wednesday on August manufacturing activity was stronger than expected. Private-sector job growth resumed last November and reached a net 241,000 payroll additions in April, the largest gain since March 2006. Obama said Friday he would detail this week "a broader package of new ideas" to boost the recovery.
  • Obama plans to visit Minnesota sometime before election
    Sep 7, 2010 — Star Tribune
    A recent Star Tribune/Minnesota Poll found only 44 percent of Minnesota voters approved of the job the president was doing.
  • Obama to get personal on economy
    Sep 7, 2010 — Politico
    But people care about substance, not messaging,” said Pennsylvania Gov. But he spent part of his childhood in a single-parent home, raised by a mother who had, at one time, resorted to food stamps to supplement her income.
  • R&D tax credit prized by tech firms held hostage in Washington
    Sep 7, 2010 — San Jose Mercury News
    It was the 13th time since the credit was established in 1981 that lawmakers and the president allowed it to lapse. The R&D credit has been allowed to lapse repeatedly, even though it has broad bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. Some senators have said it should be realigned to benefit more small businesses. Whatever its flaws, Atkinson said extensive economic research shows the credit works.
  • Report card on South Hampton Roads legislators
    Sep 7, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    The legislation has the support of Senate Democratic leaders and was approved by the Judiciary Committee but has been awaiting Senate action since May. The bill has stalled in a Senate committee. The bill was offered by Republicans as an alternative to the Democrats' climate control bill but was rejected by the House.
  • Sales tax materials prove controversial
    Sep 7, 2010 — The State
    ...members of Richland County Council now seem reluctant to allocate public money to educate voters on the details of a penny sales tax referendum. Tonight, the council holds a public hearing on the $25,000 budget amendment -- one that has helped unite opponents of raising the local sales tax to improve transportation. Administrators asked for extra money to pay for printed materials and the like. Despite casting a preliminary vote in favor of the money late in July, some on the...
  • Scott tries to tie Sink to Obama in governor's race
    Sep 7, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
    Sink, by supporting the bill, wants to cut Medicare, he asserts. But those cuts do not reduce core Medicare benefits, according to the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. The cuts primarily reduce payments to providers and Medicare Advantage plans offered by private insurers, which often provide added benefits. Scott's attempts not to focus on the important issues of the state." Scott and Sink actually agree that the governor's race is largely about jobs.
  • Stu Rothenberg predicts 37-42 House seat gain for GOP
    Sep 7, 2010 — Washington Post
    Rothenberg noted that "substantially larger" Republican gains -- between 45 and 55 seats -- are "quite possible".Rothenberg had previously pegged Republicans gains between 28 and 33 seats. Ted Strickland (D) 49 percent to 37 percent in the gubernatorial race. Another SurveyUSA poll from late July showed Paul leading by eight points.The new poll shows Paul taking 32 percent of Democrats and leading among independent voters 56 percent to 34 percent.
  • SunRail makes plans for folks after they get off the train
    Sep 7, 2010 — The Orlando Sentinel
    The little-used Gertrude's Walk in downtown, for instance, is being torn out and rebuilt.
  • The Dallas Morning News Gromer Jeffers Jr. column
    Sep 7, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    If she gets an increased number of Hispanic voters to the polls, it helps her chances. If Garcia and Jenkins prevail, Democrats take over the Commissioners Court.
  • The Morning Plum
    Sep 7, 2010 — Washington Post
    But it is not clear whether that message will have much impact, or even whether Republican candidates will want to line up behind it.
  • Why we don't talk about Barack Obama 'like a dog'
    Sep 7, 2010 — Washington Post
    If dogs suddenly change positions, say by rolling over, people are elated. The reason we love them is because dogs are, well, not the sharpest lightbulbs in the drawer. So everyone loves dogs, except for Michael Vick and the owners of the dogs in those ASPCA commercials.
  • At State, Clinton gains stature
    Sep 6, 2010 — Politico
    ... The efforts of Middle East peace envoy Mitchell "are bearing fruit and bringing that issue to the fore...which is a State issue," Rothkopf noted, while the handover in Iraq, and critical issues in Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and with China "are all State issues." Clinton “needs to be the real time line between the president and the [Middle East peace] negotiations,” veteran U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller...
  • Dallas County judge hopefuls have big ideas for budget process
    Sep 6, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    He would take advantage of the county's excellent bond rating to borrow money in the short term at low rates.
  • Economic measures face reality
    Sep 6, 2010 — CNN
    Obama unveiled a plan Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to push at least $50 billion into infrastructure spending. But Democrats argue that Republicans are being obstinate, trying to deprive them of any legislative victory just weeks before the hotly contested midterm elections. "This is just another excuse to say no. Republicans do not," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. "Doing nothing is not an option," Manley said.
  • Obama economic push: Too little, late?
    Sep 6, 2010 — CNN
    But the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll suggests the American people are still just not feeling any sort of recovery. The peace initiative may ultimately fail, but he at least has to try. The poll shows that more Americans hold the Republicans responsible for the economic mess than the Democrats, with 44 percent blaming the GOP and 35 percent picking the Democrats.
  • Obama seeks biz equipment write-off
    Sep 6, 2010 — Politico
    The write-off is designed to convince companies to plow stockpiles of cash into big-ticket spending in hopes of giving the economy a jolt, which is particularly important with skittish consumers on the sidelines.
  • Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works
    Sep 6, 2010 — New York Times
    The spending is one part of a broader economic recovery package that Mr. One possibility would be to cut existing subsidies for oil and gas exploration and production.White House officials said Mr. Obama’s presidency already included considerable spending on roads and other transportation infrastructure.
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