Archive for March, 2009

Polls are open now in New York’s 20th Congressional District for the special election to fill Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s former seat. Despite the fact that the district is overwhelmingly Republican by registration, tonight’s outcome is expected to be very close. In addition to President Obama’s support, Scott Murphy was won the endorsement of a number of local papers. The Bennington Banner described Murphy as:… someone, who, like the president, is more interested in getting things done for his constituents than in constantly making political points and grinding down the opposition in advance of the next election.The Times-Union added: We are confident that [Murpy] would join a Democratic majority that would work with Mr. Obama on what voters in the 20th Congressional District …

He doesn’t know exactly what the Obama administration wants him to cut, but Fritz Henderson, the new CEO of General Motors Corp., isn’t waiting around to find out.

Deeper. Harder. Faster.

Those were the words he used Tuesday as he outlined how the…

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Telegraph View: The decisions both domestically and diplomatically that the US President and his administration take now will have an impact around the world.

The head of the religious order that founded the University of Notre Dame has asked President Barack Obama to reconsider his stance on abortion and stem cell research in the wake of his being invited to give the school’s commencement speech in May….

SEATTLE (AP) — Many of the 28 workers arrested by immigration agents last month in a northwest Washington raid have been released and given permission to work, in another sign of how the Obama administration is handling illegal immigration…

Opening Day came early for employees Tuesday at Jack Kain’s Ford, Lincoln, Mercury dealership, when Ford Motor Co. announced a new program that would help buyers in the event of a job loss.

“When I read it to our sales people, you would have thought…

President Barack Obama embarked on his Europe trip Tuesday, with a hefty economic and national security agenda for his first journey across the Atlantic since taking office two months ago.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama arrived in London…