Economic Stimulus Plan

8minutenergy Renewables announced Monday it had signed a generation interconnection agreement with the California Independent Systems Operator Corporation and San Diego Gas & Electric for 200 megawatts of clean, renewable utility-scale solar PV power from...

he United States is working on a plan to promote the use of clean energy as a way to reduce pollution and create new jobs. The goal is ideal, but the government's plan to stimulate the economy has a flaw. The Commerce Department said in a preliminary...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Europe's economic crisis could send shock waves roaring across the Atlantic that would drag down the fragile U.S. economy and threaten President Barack Obama's hopes for a second term. The president demonstrated Friday just how...

David Axelrod sees a 'titanic struggle' on tap for next year....

Football fans may like it, but the neighbors aren't so happy. Remember the big new stadium Tulane is building? It's still scheduled to open before the start of the 2014 season, but Vanessa Bolano found some neighbors who are ready for a fight right now....

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An environmental group on Nov. 30 accused the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of neglecting science in favor of politics while the agency conducts six ecological studies covering millions of acres and a variety of landscapes across...

Occupy DC has survived the police, the cold and Darrell Issa. But now, they’re facing a potentially tough foe: rats...

Wednesday's print column. Of all the nuggets of Richard M. Daley's wit and wisdom that veteran WLS-AM 890 political reporter Bill Cameron unearthed in a recent search of his audio vault, my favorite is this: What really makes narcotics so......

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

President Barack Obama challenged Congress on Thursday to enact a $447 billion package of tax cuts and new spending to revive a stalled job market but he faces an uphill fight with Republicans. With his poll numbers at new lows amid public frustration...

President Barack Obama's plan to combat unemployment by pumping $447 billion into the nation's economy won cautious praise from Maryland-based small-business owners and labor groups Friday, but there was widespread skepticism about the proposal's...