Trade Dispute

DETROIT (AP) — When the word reached the Orion Assembly Plant, it spread along the serpentine assembly line like news of a death or natural disaster: General Motors, the biggest automaker in the world, had filed for bankruptcy protection.   On...

Drew Greenblatt's company has grown every year for the past six years — something many other firms, buffeted by the sharp recession, can't claim. What makes that all the more notable: It's a manufacturer. In Baltimore. With 35 employees, up from...

Palestinians want a prosperous nation. Israel wants a permanent peace ("Israelis debate ground invasion," Nov. 20). Non-government sponsored businesses make profit from peace and free trade, regardless of the ideology of their owners. The owners will...

You may wonder why a cattle industry organization is inserting its opinion in a trade dispute over tomatoes. The answer is simple. U.S. Cattlemen's Association (USCA) members believe firmly that all domestic agricultural producers have the absolute...

Democrat Rick Daugherty will launch his first and only TV ad on the topic that his Republican opponent, Congressman Charlie Dent, will end with: jobs. Inside a textile factory filled with workers, Daugherty argues the free trade policies that Dent...

Vegetable farmer and packer Steve Scaroni has two words for people who cling to the idea that American produce is the best. “Wake up.” Between vegetable production and trucking, Scaroni has been in business for 25 years. Increasingly...

A Democratic challenger from Franklin County, Pa., is eyeing the U.S. House of Representatives’ ninth district seat long held by a Republican. Voters headed to the polls Nov. 6 will be choosing between incumbent Bill Shuster and his opponent, Karen...

Meat from foreign sources accounts for roughly 8-20 percent of total U.S. meat supplies, but only the portions that are imported directly as meat are obvious. While it is relatively easy to track the amount of meat imported by the U.S. (2.1 billion pounds...

Independent candidate for U.S. Congress Karen Ramsburg, Mercersburg, said she wants to create jobs and a green industrial revolution.    She was featured in the Daily American Virtual Town Hall with Congressional Candidates on Wednesday. She is...

PHILADELPHIA -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced....

Mitt Romney will seek to bolster his foreign policy credentials in a major speech Monday, two weeks before the GOP presidential nominee takes part in a presidential debate focused on security. In his remarks, set to take place at the Virginia Military...

During the recent Republican National Convention, the talking heads were all a twitter about Clint Eastwood's rambling speech and whether or not Rep. Paul Ryan lied about President Barack Obama's promise to save a GM plant in Wisconsin. We have now...