The short answer is I’m not sure. For me, it depends on several things about which I am completely ignorant. Nevertheless, I have an opinion or two. Where does the FED derive it’s authority to set salaries? If the authority derives from agreements (made at the time the FED loaned […]
Candidates for Governor Support Higher Ed
By Jessica Doswell Capital News Service Virginia’s gubernatorial candidates – Democrat Creigh Deeds and Republican Bob McDonnell – are touting different options to support higher education. Politically, they have a common goal: to give more young people a chance at success by making higher education more affordable. “I’m afraid that we are pricing too many people […]
Mattress Seller Causes Taxpayer Nightmares
Mattress Seller Causes Taxpayer Nightmares by Richard A. Cooper "Sleepy’s, a family-owned mattress seller that began in Brooklyn in 1931 and later moved to Long Island, has been awarded a grant of $1.5 million to offset the cost of construction for a new facility in Hicksville. Over the past two decades, Sleepy’s […]
Home Foreclosures On The Rise: Nevada, Arizona, California Top Lists
It was reported in Realty Trac this week that the second quarter figures are in on the continuing mortgage and foreclosure mess, and exceed by 5% the figures from summer to fall. Summer, however, actually is the highest sales quarter for home sales historically. The foreclosure figures to date far exceed those that are purchasing new […]
Philippine Storm damage lingers 41 towns flooded still Loan defaults feared by retailers
In the Northern Philippines 38 towns and three cities – in the Ilocos Region remain flooded as of Sunday night, Philippine the National Disaster Coordinating Council or NDCC reports. Most of the areas three million residents are without power as medical and food supplies are limited. The scale of the disaster which government’s initial damage […]
U.S.A., Inc.: States Now Levying Service Charges For Traffic Offenses
Even in light of all those millions in stimulus monies that have now been distributed to the states and state legislatures in order to fund local and municipal budgets, and with also the ever increasing amounts of fines and penalties that are now leveraged against American citizens nationwide in monies collected for routine traffic violations […]
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