Obama to sign jobless benefit
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers...
 4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 69.0 Congress slowly consolidates power
The public forum section of The World addresses a variety of views and opinions regarding the various problems that are plaguing our nations today. Some of these letters indicate a firm grasp of the political structure that has led us to our current ...
2.5K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 69.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 69.0 Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 110.0 Farmers grow electricity
WIMER Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient. Besides the 40-some dwarf Nigerian goats they milk to make artisanal cheeses, they also raise chickens for meat and eggs, a steer for beef, hor...
4.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 69.0 Educators urge lower lottery profits for bars
SALEM (AP) Education advocates say they will continue to press the Oregon Lottery Commission to reduce bars and taverns share of video lottery profits. The advocates plan to be on hand Friday when the commission decides the issue. Lottery Director...
0.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 777.0 Report: Amtrak loses $32 per passenger
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. taxpayers spent about $32 subsidizing the cost of the typical Amtrak passenger in 2008, about four times the rail operator s estimate, according to a private study. Amtrak operates a nationwide rail network, serving more t...
3.0K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 69.0 Recession is over, but job losses aren't
WASHINGTON It s about to become official: The recession is over but not the pain. The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a ...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 69.0 Sterling required to raise $300M
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Sterling Financial Corp. must raise $300 million to solidify its capital under an agreement announced this month with federal and state regulators. The largest bank based in Washington also announced the appointment of a ne...
2.5K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 69.0 SKorea's Uni-chem to take over Eugene plant
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A South Korean company will sign a formal contract with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. to buy a plant the memory chip maker closed in the United States, an official said Wednesday. Uni-chem Co. will take over Hynix s memory chip p...
1.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 College tuition is up amid recession
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase. Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $...
6.0K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 69.0 Leaders' like for war is no surprise
We repeatedly hear our elected leaders in Washington stating, Getting out of Afghanistan is not an alternative, not on the table. We must save our country from terrorist threats. Of course the millions of dollars contributed to their election campai...
0.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 69.0 Two industries see job growth
WASHINGTON Businesses in the South and Southwest benefited most from the first federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama s stimulus program, according to initial data released by a government oversight board. Military construction and...
6.5K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 69.0 Oregon universities recruit more foreign students
CORVALLIS (AP) On the board of a classroom at Oregon State University recently, new international engineering students made two lists about what it s like to study in the United States. Under hard, they wrote: homework, wake up at the morning ...
6.1K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 69.0 Interest groups take aim at health taxes
WASHINGTON Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto someone else anyone else before they find themselves saddled with billions of dollars in...
5.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 110.0 Elks lodge raising money for veterans by collecting hides
The Coquille Valley Elks Lodge will be collecting deer and elk hides for veterans. These hides are picked up from our collection barrels, scraped, cleaned and slated down to preserve them. When sold, the profits are donated to a state Elks fund, whi...
3.0K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Government slept as rich gutted nation
The deregulation and privatization of the economic structure of America has led to our current fiscal dysfunctional imbalance. How is it we continue to allow a wealthy 3 percent minority of corporate profiteers and investors to manipulate the system ...
2.2K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 The food metamorphosis
PORTLAND To see the new face of grocery shopping, look around your neighborhood. Spot the dude toting a cooler to a porch or parking lot near you, and follow him. When he leaves, sneak a peek inside chances are you won t find cold beers, but you ...
6.8K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Mariah Carey finds freedom being imperfect
NEW YORK Lee Daniels had so much faith in Mariah Carey s acting that when the director s first choice to play a dowdy, no-nonsense social worker Oscar-winner Helen Mirren backed out, he quickly asked Carey to step in. But Daniels was well aware...
5.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 69.0 Globalism versus Americanism
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down. Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs. The tale...
4.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 110.0 | 
