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From the Right: The politics game is getting dirtier
Politics is a game, we all know that. But sometimes the game gets worrisomely dirty. The president has been playing politics and he has been playing dirty. And I, for one, am getting worried. In the dirty game people get hurt and in this game it is all of...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Budgets and Budgeting, Layoffs and Downsizing, Yasmin (drug)
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The true costs of the phony fiscal crisis
In most countries that experience a fiscal crisis, there is no ambiguity about the situation. The government is unable to sell debt at a reasonable interest rate. This probably coincides with a broader shift out of domestic assets, as smart investors...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Medicaid, Economic Policy
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Local conservation educator given national honor
A few years ago, Onaway resident Maureen Stine jumped off her own fiscal cliff, she said. She stopped working for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and started working part time for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources...
Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Energy Resources, Education
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Top CEOs more optimistic on economy but don't plan more hiring
WASHINGTON -- Despite higher taxes and looming federal budget cuts, top U.S. chief executives were more optimistic about the economy in the first three months of this year than they were at the end of 2012. The CEOs surveyed by the Business Roundtable...
Tags: Boeing Co., Government Debt, Productivity, Corporate Officers, Investments
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U.S. gov't fiscal outlook improving - but only for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite constant budget wrangling and finger-pointing by the nation's policy-makers, the government's short-term fiscal outlook isn't all that bad. It's actually getting better — at least for now. Washington is borrowing...Tags: Washington, DC, Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Medicaid
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Ryan in fantasyland
WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. You will recall that The Ryan Budget was...
Tags: Elections, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Some in Laurel facing sequestration with optimism, others brace for trickle-down effect
When Congress and the White House failed to make a deal on budget cuts March 1, sequestration went into effect, requiring federal agencies to identify $85 billion in required cuts. The looming reductions, which will be spread across agencies —...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Laurel, Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Fannie Mae
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This is something we must not forget
Arianna Huffington"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." It's one of Milan Kundera's most famous lines, from his novel "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." It's one worth keeping in mind as we approach March 20, the 10th...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Iraq, Iran, Armed Conflicts, Entertainment Events
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Wall Street shrugs off sequester
The drumbeat for weeks has been that $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester would be so horrendous for the economy that lawmakers in Washington would be forced to compromise by the March 1 deadline. When no deal was...
Tags: Politics, Petroleum Industry, Finance, Barack Obama, Ellicott City
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Deductions, credits not to be overlooked
Love those tax deductions because their days could be numbered. If you followed the "fiscal cliff" debate on taxes in December, you might be shocked at tax time this year to see your favorite deductions and credits still remain. Many that have been...Tags: Personal Income, Rentals, Travel, Charity, Politics
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How to close our National Schmoozing Deficit
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that President Obama and most leading members of Congress know what a solution to the fiscal crisis looks like; they just can’t get there from here because they don’t trust one another much. Obama is trying to...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Leon Panetta, Georgetown, U.S. Air Force, Boeing Co., Manufacturing and Engineering
Mar 19, 2013
|Column| Imperial Valley Press Online
Mar 18, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 13, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 12, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Mar 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 18, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 18, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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