BusinessWeek has a great profile of Tom Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Through the sluggish recovery, the other members of the Federal Open Market Committee have repeatedly voted to keep interest rates at scratch for an “extended period.” But not Hoenig. For More…
President Obama will be in Michigan today, but, at least according to his public schedule, he won’t be stopping in Battle Creek, the site of an oil spill that has leaked 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. (A call to confirm with the White More…
One year after devastating floods in the Midwest, The Iowa Independent’s Lynda Waddington reports that government red tape continues to hinder recovery efforts.
WASILLA, Alaska – Pastor Larry Kroon of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Gov. Sarah Palin attends services, calls on his congregation to make up their own minds about politics.
“I’m not the one you look to for policy—foreign, domestic or local,” Kroon said Sunday morning More…
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