I wonder how our furloughed EMS workers feel about this.
Darci Marchese, WTOP Radio
Dec. 7 – County Offers Cash Incentives To Buy Foreclosed Homes
CHARLES COUNTY, Md. – Another county in our area is offering cash incentives in an effort to get existing foreclosures off of the housing market.
Charles County is joining Prince George’s and [...]

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I first started hearing rumors that Arizona Pizza would be closing a year ago.  The big question is – where will PTP members congregate now?
Pizza, movies go out of business
BUZZ on BUSINESS

By Erica Mitrano, Staff Writer

A La Plata restaurant has served its last fresh, oven-baked pizza.
The town’s location of Arizona Pizza Company has closed for [...]

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By Brady Dennis, David Cho and Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writers

Chrysler, one of the three pillars of the American auto industry, will file for bankruptcy today after last-minute negotiations between the government and the automaker’s creditors broke down last night, an Obama administration official said.
U.S. officials had offered Chrysler’s secured lenders $2.25 billion in cash [...]

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News Alert
8:15 a.m. ET Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Acting CFO of Freddie Mac Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
The acting chief financial officer of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac committed suicide overnight in his Vienna home, Fairfax police said this morning. David Kellermann, 41, has been Freddie Mac’s chief financial officer since September. [...]

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Republican Mark Sanford Has Been One of the Most Outspoken Critics of Obama’s Plan

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009; 1:29 PM
South Carolina’s Republican governor will break his political logjam with the White House over stimulus funds today, his aides said, becoming the last governor in the nation to officially seek billions [...]

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By Annys Shin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009; 10:00 AM
The nation’s unemployment rate shot up from 8.1 to 8.5 percent last month, new figures out today show, as employers continued to slash jobs in the face of slumping demand.
The economy shed 663,000 jobs in March, the fourth straight month in which job losses [...]

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I signed an online petition today directed at the AIG bonuses.  I don’t know if it will help, but it made me feel a little better.
AIG Executives: Your Bonuses or Your Jobs!
The U.S. unemployment rate has risen to 8.1% – yet taxpayers are providing more than $170 billion in bailout assistance to help keep American [...]

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Our tax dollars at work.
Insurance giant AIG to pay $165 million in bonuses
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – American International Group is giving its executives tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses even though it received a taxpayer bailout of more than $170 billion dollars.
AIG is paying out the executive bonuses [...]

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Ok – so my daughter Amber did not ever get her stimulus check because she was told somebody else claimed her on their 2007 taxes as a dependent.  We have not been able to figure out who that was.  We have not been able to sort that mess out.  She took her paperwork to do [...]

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Sunny day!  Sweeping the clouds away!  On my way to where the air is sweet.  Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
Sesame Street layoffs are no joke
Jonathan Berr
Roll over Cookie Monster and tell Elmo the news, the economic slowdown has hit Sesame Street.
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit producer of the [...]

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Will they have to sell their farms when the aid ends?  Was this just a temporary fix?
Many Rely on Payments From Lawsuit Settlement
By Jenna Johnson, Washington Post Staff Writer

Next year, many of Maryland’s former tobacco farmers will receive their last buyout checks from the state, prompting concern about a widespread sell-off of farmland if funding [...]

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Md. schools stand to gain $1.1 billion from stimulus
Funds will arrive over two years, with some flexibility in spending
By Liz Bowie | liz.bowie@baltsun.com
8:21 PM EST, February 16, 2009
Maryland schools will get about $1.1 billion over the next two years from the federal stimulus package that President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign Tuesday, an amount [...]

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Tom Baldwin in Washington

President Obama’s political opponents, having tried and failed in the election to brand him a socialist or convince people that his background was “un-American”, are reprising the line of attack with claims that he wants to make a robustly free-market US economy look a lot more like Europe.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican [...]

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With the soaring unemployment rate there are likely thousands of people facing the necessity to apply for and use public assistance.
From this week’s batch of Postsecrets.

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Darci Marchese, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — Are you tired of rising bills for TV, telephone and Internet service? If you think your bills are too high, then ask for a break.
It’s well worth asking for lower rates, especially for bundled services, where your TV, Internet and phone are on one bill, The Wall Street Journal reports.
One San [...]

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