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More than $25,000 worth of one of the world's rarest and most coveted Bourbon whiskeys has disappeared from a Kentucky distillery in what investigators think was an inside job.
The government shutdown may have ended before the U.S. defaulted on its debt and caused worldwide financial calamity, but the economic impact from the 16-day standoff in Congress still came with a hefty price tag.
Northwestern University is punting peanuts this weekend.The staple of concession stands at sports stadiums across the country will not be sold, or even allowed in the stadium, when Northwestern hosts the University of Minnesota in a college football game Saturday.The university in Evanston, Ill.
While the irresponsible Republican shutdown of the government has ended, the solution is only temporary and we could see the hostage-taking begin again in January. While many of the extremists who supported the shutdown will tell you it was no big deal and didn't cause any harm, the stories that working people tell are quite different.
Adults took over Washington, D.C., and now America can catch its breath after another manufactured crisis in our economy: 16 days of a federal shutdown that disrupted virtually every aspect of the economy, from small business loans to veterans’ funerals. But, what now?
A lot of new research about the economy has been released in recent weeks from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). Here are the most important recent reports.
So we seem to be returning to sanity in Washington—the House Republicans agreed to allow our government—the people who inspect our food and forecast the weather, guard our national treasures and calculate our economic statistics—to do its job. And the Republicans have decided that, after all, it is important we honor our commitments—to those who lend us money, to those who served our country and to those who merely worked for a lifetime and paid into Social Security, expecting the promise their country made to them would be kept.
President Barack Obama said Thursday, as the federal government blinked back to life, that the 16-day shutdown and threat of national default had inflicted “completely unnecessary damage on our economy.”“The American people are completely fed up with Washington,” he said from the White House.
A manhunt is on for a pair of Florida inmates, both convicted of murder, after a prison released the two based on what it says was falsified court documents.Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both 34, were freed from Franklin Correctional Institution in Carabelle, Fla.
Over at Think Progress, Bryce Covert did a few calculations about what the estimated $24 billion cost of the government shutdown could have bought America. How about the Department of Agriculture’s entire budget? Or nearly all of Head Start, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program?There’s more. Check it out here.So much for the budget hawks.
