Economic Stimulus Plan

The task force studying Maryland's transportation funding has yet to finalize its recommendations, but members should expect to receive a great deal of criticism when they do. The panel's preliminary recommendations made Tuesday include a 15-cent increase...

Leaders from Maryland's two largest counties and Baltimore asked lawmakers Tuesday to raise the state's gas tax as a way to fund road projects and create jobs, making their case for an increase as tea party activists rallied against the idea in a plaza...

Gov. Pat Quinn met behind closed doors with legislative leaders today to talk jobs and economic growth, floating a plan that would increase the state’s earned income tax credit for low-income families and close some corporate tax loopholes. The...

Gov. Terry Branstad is warning that a budget and property tax plan working its way through the Iowa Senate is not acceptable. Although he objects to parts of the plan, Branstad noted Tuesday that he's confident he can reach a compromise with Democrats...

Ahead of the Republican presidential debate Thursday night, the Democratic National Committee has released a report that concludes millions of jobs nationwide -- 365,355 in Pennsylvania -- would be lost if the GOP-backed plan to balance the budget...

As Washington prepares to reopen a spruced up District of Columbia War Memorial, a fight intensifies over whether the often overlooked memorial should be turned into a national World War I memorial....

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the current Republican frontrunner in the oversized field of hopefuls to take on President Obama next year, is making his Pennsylvania campaign debut in Allentown Thursday. Romney will hold a late afternoon news...

As Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney plans his visit to Allentown today, his campaign released a web video about the closure of Allentown Metal Works -- a factory that a year before it went out of business was touted by......

A new statewide survey of environment issues conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California found more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already experiencing the effects of global...

Plans for nearly 5,000 new homes ringing the Orange County Great Park won preliminary approval from a divided Irvine City Council last week. Council members voted 3 to 2 last Tuesday night to OK general-plan and zoning changes as well as $40 million in...

The stock market rallied broadly Wednesday as investors pinned their hopes on the economic stimulus plan that President Obama is expected to unveil tomorrow night. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 275 points and yields on Treasury bonds...

Democrat Obama doesn't actually have the costs yet, but he wants Congress to pass his plans right now....