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Christmas is here and the bad men are about to open their presents! It's showdown time but can Nick Sax save the day without Happy to help him - or will he screw this up like everything else? You must not miss the blood-drenched conclusion of our heartwarming Yuletide classic!


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If you're disappointed with Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson has a reminder for you: American presidents haven't done many great things without a mass movement pushing them every step of the way.
Over the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become a strong grassroots force. Now it's time to develop a unified legislative strategy that can shape the national debate.
Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream. But his list could only include a handful of all those who have contributed to this tradition. We asked our readers to nominate the American progressives who have made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.
Investigative journalist Isabel Macdonald explains how she uncovered Lou Dobbs's immigration hypocrisy for her explosive article in this issue of The Nation.
In 1963, Jackson stood with Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. For last weekend's One Nation rally, Jackson traveled to DC from Detroit, a city in dire need of sustainable jobs.
The One Nation march should not not simply be a nice day out for progressives, says Bill Fletcher Jr.—it needs to be a turning of the tide, a change of course away from anger and toward solidarity.

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Linda C. Mitchell, Ph.DLinda C. Mitchell, a professor of English, teaches Grammar, Early European Literature, History of the English Language, Research and Methods, Survey of the Classics, and Composition at SJSU. She is an internationally recognized scholar in language, linguistics, and the history of rhetoric. She holds an M.A. in Medieval Literature from UC Davis, an M.A. in Creative and Professional Writing from UNLV, and a Ph.D in English (Rhetoric, Linguistics, Literature) from USC. She is the author of Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battleground in 17th- and 18th-Century England (Ashgate 2001) and is currently writing A Cultural History of English Lexicography, 1600-1800: The Authoritative Word (Ashgate) and an annotated edition of Milton's Grammar for The Complete Works of John Milton (Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present (University of South Carolina Press 2007) and co-editor of The Cultural History of Letter Writing (University of California Press 2010). She has published articles in the Huntington Library Quarterly, International Journal of Lexicography, Handbook of World Englishes, and Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Dr. Mitchell received the College of the Humanities and the Arts 2007 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. She is part of the team building a partnership between the SJSU Writing Center and the Fabretto Children's Foundation in Nicaragua. Dr. Mitchell recently earned her 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Spring 2013 Office Hours: |
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Gloria CollinsGloria Collins earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English at San Jose State University. With Dr. Virginia de Araujo as her mentor, she taught English 1A-F and 1B-F, composition for foreign speakers, when she was a Teaching Assistant in 1979. In 1980, she continued with this assignment until the special "F" sections were discontinued in 1999. She continues to teach composition courses in the English Department and also coordinates the Writing Skills Test. She is an experienced holistic reader for tests like the TOEFL, EPT, WST, and other abbreviated exams too numerous to fog your mind with. Gloria is a member of the English Department's Composition Committee, Policy Committee, and the university Writing Requirements Committee. In her year as Faculty-in-Residence at the Writing Center (2008-2009), she compiled a report about how the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) is enforced throughout the California State University system. In her second semester, she proposed a new writing course for students having trouble passing the Writing Skills Test. She is secretary of the California Faculty Association executive board at SJSU and a union activist. She is a published poet and hopes to complete her second novel manuscript before she gets much older. Spring 2013 Office Hours: |
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Don't let the soaring stock market and applause from politicians over a slight dip in the unemployment rate fool you. A deeper dive into government data underscores just how bleak the picture still is in today's labor market. | 05/09/13 15:22:31 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A U.S. senator wants the Air Force to prove it saved money by closing bases due to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process. "Base closure commissions are supposed to take the politicians out of the process. I think they've replaced politicians with other politicians," said Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois. | 05/09/13 13:34:36 By - Jennifer Bowen
Some 24,000 people, give or take, live in Sumner County, a farming county south of Wichita on the Oklahoma border. Voters here elect reliably anti-tax and anti-spending lawmakers to the Kansas Statehouse. So it's likely most Sumner voters nodded in agreement last year when Romney called 47 percent of Americans "takers" - so reliant on federal aid that they couldn't be persuaded that runaway federal debt threatens economic freedom. Yet, as Vince Wetta suggests, Sumner County is a taker. | 05/09/13 13:11:50 By - Dave Helling and Steve Kraske
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday suggested possible ways to make private student loans more affordable and easier to refinance. | 05/08/13 18:19:00 By - By Renee Schoof
Thousands of Olympia streetlights could be converted from the traditional yellowish, high-pressure sodium lights to whiter, energy-saving LED lamps, in a project estimated to cost nearly $4 million. | 05/06/13 15:28:13 By - Matt Batcheldor
A surprisingly positive jobs report Friday showed that employers added 165,000 positions in April and the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5 percent, sparking a day of milestones on Wall Street as investors looked past doubts about robust hiring in the months ahead. | 05/03/13 17:52:26 By - By Kevin G. Hall
The Federal Reserve, in a carefully worded shift in language, signaled new concern Wednesday that constraints on federal spending are slowing the economy. | 05/01/13 17:02:55 By - By Kevin G. Hall
The federal government is doubling its estimate of how much oil might be discovered and harvested in the booming area of the Dakotas and Montana, a region that's already helping to drive the United States' dramatic shift into a role as the world's leading oil producer. | 04/30/13 17:32:18 By - By Sean Cockerham
If you worry about Scott Air Force Base's future, then the Pentagon's most recent budget bill contains good news: The next round of Base Realignment and Closure, the process that Congress uses to decide which military bases to close, won't begin until 2015 at the earliest. | 04/29/13 13:25:20 By - Mike Fitzgerald
Results are an improvement over the prior three months but fell short of analyst expectations. | 04/26/13 08:53:51 By - Kevin G. Hall
Seemingly intractable long-term unemployment has become a national emergency that requires new and creative steps if it's to be reversed before it does permanent damage, several high-profile economists warned Congress on Wednesday. | 04/24/13 19:17:18 By - By Kevin G. Hall
As part of a new push to broaden the way economic growth is measured, government statisticians will soon begin using a new accounting method that's likely to spotlight the problem of underfunded pension funds, particularly those managed by state and local governments across the nation. | 04/24/13 16:20:47 By - By Kevin G. Hall
The old adage "pack your patience" may be more true than ever this summer at Sacramento International Airport and other airports nationally - the result of federal budget cutbacks that went into effect this week. | 04/24/13 12:55:43 By - Tony Bizjak
As rescuers searched Thursday for survivors of a deadly Texas explosion, a supervisor at a Mid-Columbia fertilizer manufacturer emphasized that his companys top priority is safety. | 04/19/13 14:34:28 By - Sara Schilling and Kai-Huei Yau
As many as 400,000 California undocumented farmworkers may get a fast track to legal status under a potential landmark accord between the agricultural industry and the United Farm Workers union. | 04/18/13 14:57:01 By - Peter Hecht
The proposed revamp of immigration laws that's scheduled for release in the Senate on Tuesday would increase the numbers of, and ease the process of obtaining, visas for highly skilled workers. The legislation also is expected to propose expanding the caps for farm workers, and it would force all employers within five years to verify the immigration status of their employees. | 04/15/13 17:55:48 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Need to refinance your mortgage? Just put it on your shopping list next time you visit Costco, alongside the jumbo paper towels. Big-box retail stores offer a growing number of financial services, from check cashing and reloadable pre-paid cards to small business loans and life insurance. But they aren't subject to the same federal oversight as banks, and they might not always provide the same consumer protections. | 04/15/13 15:50:07 By - By Lindsay Wise
Buried deep in the Obama administration's four-volume budget released this week are long-term economic projections that underscore what could be steep costs for failing to get the nation's finances in order. | 04/11/13 16:35:07 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A disappointing March jobs report Friday, marked by a sharp slowdown in hiring and shrinking labor force participation, triggered new debate over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery. | 04/05/13 17:10:23 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Wanted: Spokester to connect to young adults via social media and teach them about personal finance. Tropical Financial Credit Union in Miramar, Flor., launched a search Tuesday for a new spokester position. Its the credit unions attempt to market to the under-banked Millennial generation. | 04/03/13 13:34:25 By - Ina Paiva Cordle
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., is asking the Department of Energy for information on why it closed the DOE field office in Richland doing counterintelligence work for the Hanford nuclear reservation. | 04/02/13 13:24:16 By - Annette Cary
A new generation of huge distribution centers is sprouting from the fields of far southwest Johnson County along the Interstate 35 corridor, confirming Kansas Citys arrival as a major national logistical hub. | 04/02/13 12:53:13 By - Kevin Collison
Freddie Neese does not want to live in a nursing home. The 66-year-old who has congestive heart failure and an enlarged heart said he's able to stay in his own home - for now - with help from programs such as Meals on Wheels. But this program both locally and nationwide will face tough financial times if, as expected, it becomes a victim of sequestration, the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts triggered because leaders couldn't agree on a better way to cut federal spending. | 04/02/13 12:46:40 By - Anna M. Tinsley
The conventional wisdom is that financial troubles in Cyprus have little bearing on the health of American banks and the U.S. financial system. That view may prove optimistic if problems in Cyprus spread to its neighbors. | 03/28/13 19:09:46 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Bank of Americas CEO, in an interview that aired Tuesday with public televisions Charlie Rose, praised the federal regulations that have been rolled out in the wake of the financial crisis and said banks must be run better in the future. | 03/28/13 07:14:43 By - Deon Roberts
The Coast Guard has asked the Justice Department to investigate possible pollution violations by both the drilling rigs Shell used in its botched efforts to explore for oil last year in the Arctic Ocean waters off the northern coast of Alaska. | 03/27/13 19:53:32 By - By Sean Cockerham
As the spring home-buying season gets under way, bidding wars are breaking out on Sacramento's tree-lined streets. | 03/26/13 06:55:21 By - Hudson Sangree
An obscure federal regulator of electricity markets has emerged as a tough cop on the beat, taking on Wall Street banks and big energy firms alike for market manipulation. That aggressive approach stands out when its compared with that of the regulator in charge of looking for manipulation in the oil and gasoline markets. | 03/25/13 16:40:31 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Kansas cant become the Saudi Arabia of wind the words of Gov. Sam Brownback without more giant transmission lines to carry all that wind-generated electricity out of western Kansas. | 03/25/13 14:04:22 By - Dan Voorhis
A year ago, a $25 billion settlement ordered banks to do a better job helping troubled homeowners, and to end the stories of borrowers trapped in a confusing web of mortgage negotiations leading to foreclosure. | 03/25/13 07:20:20 By - Andrew Dunn
Bradenton Mayor Wayne Poston and Palmetto Mayor Shirley Groover Bryant drove off Wednesday morning to deliver hot food from Meals on Wheels PLUS of Manatee on Ninth Street East in Bradenton to bolster awareness of homebound senior hunger. | 03/21/13 12:16:06 By - Vin Mannix
Civilian union workers from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island rallied Wednesday near Beaufort City Hall against the federal budget cuts known as sequestration. The cuts could mean furloughs for hundreds of non-military workers in Beaufort County. | 03/21/13 12:06:48 By - CASEY CONLEY
Agencies that serve seniors in the Sacramento County region are bracing for the hit: Federally funded programs for older adults - including the popular senior nutrition program - face automatic, across-the-board budget cuts as a result of the sequester. | 03/21/13 07:03:53 By - Anita Creamer
The Federal Reserve upped its forecast for the U.S. labor market Wednesday, but Chairman Ben Bernanke cautioned that ongoing political battles over federal spending are creating headwinds and led the central bank to revise its forecast and project slower growth. | 03/20/13 18:45:01 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Republicans like to say that federal spending is "crowding out" investment by the private sector. That's scary sounding, but it isn't actually happening. | 03/20/13 16:21:52 By - By Kevin G. Hall
One long-term effect of deep federal budget cuts could be that some research projects won't get done, at California's UC Merced administrator warned Tuesday. | 03/20/13 12:55:41 By - Yesenia Amaro
More than 4,500 Scott Air Force Base civilian workers will receive 30-day notices in the mail by the end of the week informing them they will be taking one-day-per-week of unpaid vacation between now and September because of the federal budget sequester. | 03/20/13 12:02:28 By - Mike Fitzgerald
Hanford workers to be laid off because of budget cuts caused by sequestration should begin being notified Monday. Department of Energy contractors were continuing to work on adjusted budgets late last week, including the number of layoffs that would be required. | 03/19/13 15:34:15 By - Annette Cary
Your smart phone already serves as a portable office, media player, newspaper, GPS, camera and social network hub. Now it can replace your wallet, too. | 03/18/13 19:39:45 By - By Lindsay Wise
The Pentagon is cancelling a well-loved Air Force competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state this summer, grounding the air mobility rodeo to save money | 03/14/13 18:09:33 By - Adam Ashton
Automatic defense spending cuts has resulted this week in the suspension of the military tuition assistance program for service members for the rest of fiscal year 2013 for most branches, including the Air Force. | 03/13/13 12:49:39 By - Rick Plumlee
Hearst Castle landscaping staffers are plucking citrus from 120 trees, most planted about eight years ago to replace a decorative entry-to-the-estate orchard reduced by age to a scant, scruffy bunch of misshapen, dying trees. State Parks donates the bounty to the 3-year-old GleanSLO program, now part of the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County. | 03/13/13 12:33:44 By - Kathe Tanner
Mass transit ridership increased nationwide last year, according to new numbers Monday, an indication that more people are going back to work and high gasoline prices are changing how they get there. However, a closer look at the ridership report reveals that while many transit systems posted large gains, others saw a decline, reflecting the unevenness of the economic recovery. And declines in the state, local and federal tax revenues that support transit systems have forced many of them to cut back service. | 03/11/13 16:45:52 By - By Curtis Tate
Vicente Contreras is 70 years old and "no más," he insists with a smile and he says he is still fit and hearty enough to perform the hard labor of California's farm fields. | 03/11/13 06:44:11 By - Peter Hecht
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reached out to local media around the country on Thursday to defend plans to furlough meat and poultry inspectors for 11 days spread through July and August as part of the federal sequester. | 03/08/13 17:10:49 By - Dan Voorhis
Local housing agencies are preparing for federal budget reductions by freezing waiting lists already clogged by thousands of applicants and, in Fort Worth, even canceling vouchers already issued to clients who are still searching for apartments. | 03/08/13 16:19:18 By - Alex Branch
Gen. William M. Fraser III, the chief of U.S. Transportation Command, based at Scott Air Force Base, warned Thursday night that the federal budget sequester -- the $85 billion in automatic across-the-board budget cuts -- is already starting to hurt military readiness one week after it began. | 03/08/13 15:52:48 By - Mike Fitzgerald
The stronger-than-expected gain of 236,000 jobs and a four-year-low unemployment rate of 7.7 percent suggested an accelerating economy Friday. The question is whether politicians will ram a stick into the spokes of growth. | 03/08/13 16:49:17 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Budget gurus for the state of Washington are still calculating the actual effects of the federal spending cuts known as sequestration, but what is known is that vulnerable populations the disabled, seniors, poor preschoolers will feel the brunt. | 03/08/13 07:35:03 By - Brad Shannon
In Washington, the across-the-board budget reduction triggered by the failure of Congress and the White House to reach a deal on federal spending is called the sequester. | 03/08/13 07:06:03 By - Peter Hecht
The insurance industry is ill-prepared to handle climate change-related disasters, regulators and industry watchers warned Thursday, saying the business hasn't evolved enough in the face of rising sea levels and extreme weather fueled by climate change. | 03/07/13 17:51:45 By - By Erika Bolstad
The natural gas boom in North Texas is sputtering, with the number of rigs working the Barnett Shale recently hitting a 10-year low. Its an issue elsewhere, as well, as the glut of domestic energy thats transforming America drives down the price of natural gas and makes drilling less profitable. | 03/07/13 15:43:21 By - By Sean Cockerham
Cuts of more than $19 million are expected at the Idaho National Laboratory as a result of the budget reductions that went into effect last Friday | 03/06/13 11:39:00 By - Rocky Barker
Already, a decade of budget deficits run up in war and economic crisis has saddled the government with a $16 trillion debt, a bill that will force the country to come to grips with how much government it wants and how much it wants to pay for it at the very time the aging baby boomers put new strains on the budget through such vast programs as Medicare and Social Security. Now the government is about to start cutting spending in some programs, offering a first look at how the American people will react. | 03/01/13 18:46:37 By - By David Lightman
U.S. oil production has soared to heights not seen in 20 years, largely driven by an explosion in crude harvested from Texas shale rock. | 03/01/13 06:29:21 By - By Sean Cockerham
Forced Army budget cuts will show themselves in military communities like the South Sound in slashed paychecks to furloughed employees and reduced opportunities for private companies to work on bases, senior Army officers said in a Wednesday news conference. | 02/28/13 13:45:23 By - Adam Ashton
Uncertainty was the word Wednesday as the Friday deadline for $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts crept closer. | 02/28/13 12:41:55 By - CARL MARIO NUDI and SARA KENNEDY
Western Washington University students receiving federal financial aid will be able to continue getting the same amount of funding through the 2013-14 school year, even if their aid is affected by automatic federal spending cuts that could kick in Friday, March 1. | 02/28/13 12:38:13 By - Zoe Fraley
Shell is dropping plans to drill in the Arctic waters off Alaska this year after a 2012 drilling season marred by equipment failures and ongoing investigations by the Coast Guard, Interior Department and the Department of Justice. | 02/27/13 18:38:45 By - By Sean Cockerham
Members of Congress expressed misgivings Tuesday about a proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways, pressing company officials about whether the $11 billion deal would preserve competition and jobs and keep fares from rising. | 02/26/13 17:21:37 By - By Curtis Tate
Kansas will lose at least $79 million in funding for the states military bases and face about $10.8 million in cuts to education this year if Congress and the president cant reach agreement to head off automatic budget cuts scheduled to begin Friday, according to a new White House report. | 02/26/13 14:02:09 By - Dion Lefler
The air traffic control tower at Olympia Regional Airport is among hundreds of towers at regional airports throughout the country that could close as a result of the federal governments sequestration, the term used to describe $85 billion in automatic spending cuts. | 02/26/13 13:41:30 By - Rolf Boone
With the U.S. government moving quickly toward automatic budget cuts that kick in this Friday, Fort Benning held a town hall meeting for its civilian workers on Monday, while other federal agencies pondered the impact on their operations. | 02/26/13 13:30:45 By - Tony Adams
Two of the nations most powerful interest groups labor and business, often at loggerheads have come to a rare agreement on the guiding principles for handling future low-skilled immigrant workers. | 02/22/13 07:33:32 By - By Franco Ordonez
Economists warn that the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts in federal spending set to start taking effect March 1 would stunt growth and slow hiring. Less clear is how long it would take to feel the benefits from the tough-love approach. | 02/21/13 17:24:03 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Blessings in a Backpack began with two schools in 2005 and now serves nearly 62,000 students in 437 schools in 42 states and three other countries - Canada, Colombia and Haiti. Britta and her husband, Jeff Foster, began the program at Woodrow Elementary in Modesto, Calif., when the school year started in August. | 02/21/13 12:53:05 By - Sue Nowicki
The five banks involved in a sweeping national mortgage settlement reported providing $350 million in mortgage relief to 7,500 borrowers in North Carolina through the end of last year, according to a report released Thursday by the settlements monitor. | 02/21/13 12:36:33 By - Andrew Dunn
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihans stock bonus nearly doubled this year, to $11 million, reflecting a steep share price rise and the boards apparent confidence in Moynihans progress on the banks legal issues and capital position. | 02/20/13 07:21:53 By - Andrew Dunn
Theyre baaaacccck. Like locusts ravaging fertile crops, gasoline prices are soaring again and eating away at the purchasing power of ordinary Americans. And again, financial speculators appear to be a big part of the story. | 02/20/13 13:09:52 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Talk about diluting the brand.
Thousands of bourbon drinkers told Makers Mark that it bottled a big mistake when it reduced the alcohol content to 84 proof from 90 proof in its signature whiskey. | 02/19/13 07:17:59 By - Diane StaffordEastern Kentucky coal country is filled with people competing for nonexistent jobs, tied to the area by family and unable to sell their homes even if they want to leave. | 02/15/13 13:00:00 By - By Sean Cockerham
The governors of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia are pushing President Barack Obama's choice for interior secretary to abandon federal opposition to drilling off the Atlantic Coast, where production has been blocked for decades. | 02/14/13 18:33:10 By - By Sean Cockerham
A number of economic indicators point to an increase in consumption suggesting that the consumer, who drives much of the U.S. economy, is willing to loosen the purse strings. Less clear, however, is to what degree Americans are willing to take on more debt and spend more freely. The psychological scars left by the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession remain. | 02/14/13 17:29:28 By - By Kevin G. Hall
American Airlines and US Airways officially announced an $11 billion merger on Thursday morning. The new company, which will be based in Fort Worth, will have more than 6,700 daily flights to 336 destinations in 56 countries, the carriers said. | 02/14/13 12:42:18 By - Andrea Ahles
Foreclosure activity in January dropped to its lowest level nationwide since June 2006. | 02/14/13 07:09:51 By - Steve Rosen
Russia's state-owned oil company is poised to play a major role in developing America's Arctic natural gas under a new agreement to give the company a stake in a huge Alaskan project. | 02/13/13 17:55:16 By - By Sean Cockerham
A 32-year-old owner of a small software company pays $275 a month for his and his wife's health insurance. A Boise State University business student sends about $130 of her student-loan money to her health insurer each month. These Idahoans could pay much more for health insurance next year, in part because of new federal rules that affect how much insurers can charge people based on age for coverage they buy on their own for themselves and their families. Known as "age band compression," this shift will transfer some of the costs of health insurance from older Americans to people in their 20s and 30s. | 02/12/13 12:20:56 By - Audrey Dutton
Gone are the days when a bride-to-be strolled into Amy Craparos The Wow Factor Cakes with a blank slate and a couple of magazine clippings. Now, brides in the throes of wedding planning come to her Park Road bakery armed with their smartphones and tablets open to their new primary source of inspiration: Pinterest, a social media site that allows users to maintain virtual pinboards with images from the web. | 02/12/13 12:10:26 By - Caroline McMillan
A potential merger deal between American Airlines and US Airways remained in a holding pattern Monday, with an announcement possible Thursday, sources said Monday. | 02/12/13 07:21:01 By - Andrea Ahles
New statistics from a Chicago-based social research group reveal that one in three Illinois residents are living below or near the poverty line. According to the Social Impact Research Center, a program of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, almost 1.8 million, or 15 percent, of Illinoisans live in poverty. Another 2.2 million Illinois residents, 17.9 percent, have incomes between 100 percent and 199 percent of the poverty level. | 02/11/13 12:43:32 By - Will Buss
Little by little, Kansas public broadcasters feel the pinch of state budget cuts. At High Plains Public Radio in Garden City, the air sometimes goes dead or programs play twice on consecutive days. In Kansas and across the country, public broadcasters find statehouses reluctant to help with the bills for two reasons: Theres simply less money to spare, and Republican-dominated legislatures see the radio and TV stations as too liberal. | 02/11/13 07:16:37 By - Brad Cooper
If David Hart gets his way, South Beachs 42-room Astor Hotel will be on a hiring spree this year as it adds concierge service, a roof-top pool, an all-night diner, spa and private-car service available 24 hours a day. | 02/11/13 06:59:14 By - Douglas Hanks
Standing in checkout lines at JCPenney stores in the Tri-Cities and across the nation could soon be outdated thanks to something many of us already have in a pocket or purse, an iPod Touch. | 02/08/13 12:56:03 By - Loretto J. Hulse
As the Rick Perry-Jerry Brown spitting match entered its fourth day, the Republican governor of Texas announced Thursday that he will travel to California to recruit businesses from the Golden State. | 02/08/13 12:49:56 By - David Siders and Phillip Reese
Idaho companies like J.R. Simplot and Micron Technology have benefited from the emergence of China as a global economic giant. | 02/08/13 12:17:15 By - Rocky Barker
Soft holiday advertising hurt The McClatchy Co.'s fourth-quarter results, and the cost of refinancing its debt left the newspaper chain with a loss. | 02/08/13 07:03:56 By - Dale Kasler
A merger between American Airlines and US Airways could be announced as early as next week as the two companies move closer to finalizing details of a deal, sources familiar with the negotiations say. | 02/07/13 07:37:16 By - Andrea Ahles
U.S. and British regulators announced a $612 million settlement Wednesday with Royal Bank of Scotland, with the global bank acknowledging that it had manipulated key benchmark interest rates to benefit its trading positions in unregulated markets. | 02/06/13 17:59:11 By - By Kevin G. Hall
The Justice Department's filing of a multi-billion-dollar fraud lawsuit against the Standard & Poor's rating agency this week culminates a massive, multi-year federal investigation code-named "Alchemy," but it's only the start of a more public legal battle joined by at least 16 state attorneys general. | 02/05/13 18:53:28 By - By Michael Doyle, Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall
By most economic measures, the moribund housing sector seems to have turned a corner and is now firmly in recovery. For many homeowners, however, it may still feel like a statistical rebound because an improving housing sector is not the same as a healthy one. | 02/05/13 15:42:12 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Trying to get ahead of a potentially explosive story, credit rating agency Standard & Poor's announced Monday that the Justice Department had informed the company that it's the subject of a civil lawsuit for the AAA ratings it gave to complex bonds in 2007 that later turned out to be junk. | 02/04/13 19:13:01 By - By Kevin G. Hall and Greg Gordon
The healthcare industry in South Florida, like the rest of the country, faces huge challenges in the year ahead as major federal reforms kick in, experts told about 700 people at a University of Miami conference on Friday. | 02/02/13 15:09:13 By - John Dorschner
Duke Energy will close two of its oldest coal-fired power plants, Riverbend west of Charlotte and Buck in Rowan County in April, two years ahead of schedule. Both plants date to the 1920s and had been planned for retirement in 2015. | 02/01/13 12:58:47 By - Bruce Henderson
January's employment numbers marked another month of consistent but unremarkable gains, pointing to a more-of-the-same economy for the foreseeable future. | 02/01/13 22:11:09 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Should public universities and colleges in North Carolina be judged and funded primarily by how well they groom students for the job market? | 01/31/13 07:23:29 By - Caroline McMillan
The U.S. economy shrank slightly in the final three months of 2012, yet stocks are within striking distance of all-time highs. Is the economy stronger than the statistics say it is, or are financial markets getting ahead of economic fundamentals? | 01/30/13 19:06:44 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A cloud of uncertainty hovers over Washingtons newest consumer watchdog agency. | 01/30/13 18:05:37 By - By Lindsay Wise
Septembers Democratic National Convention injected $91 million in new spending into the local economy, for a total economic impact of nearly $164 million, according to a consultants report released Monday. | 01/29/13 07:13:29 By - Steve Harrison
Some of the tightest austerity measures in a generation have led top Air Force commanders to cancel air shows and other unnecessary flight operations, to freeze civilian hiring and to prepare for unpaid furloughs for thousands of civilian workers. | 01/28/13 15:22:33 By - Mike Fitzgerald
Despite bipartisan desire to help U.S. business compete better against foreign rivals with lower taxes, the window appears to be closing for a comprehensive revamp of how business is taxed. | 01/23/13 15:43:21 By - By Kevin G. Hall
They survived hurricanes and oil spills, but Gulf Coast shrimp processors say there's no way they can battle foreign governments to stay in business. | 01/15/13 15:25:08 By - By Rob Hotakainen
The first paycheck of 2013 contained a nasty surprise for many workers: a tax hike that shrank their take-home earnings by 2 percent or more. | 01/14/13 06:48:01 By - Dale Kasler
Watchdog group Public Citizen and a U.S. senator are calling for an investigation into Bank of Americas settlement with mortgage giant Fannie Mae in a dispute involving $1.4 trillion in loans. | 01/11/13 07:11:09 By - Andrew Dunn
The first group of Campbell Soup Co. workers, 290 in all, will lose their jobs by Feb. 1 as part of the gradual shutdown of the company's plant in south Sacramento. | 01/11/13 06:53:55 By - Mark Glover and Darrell Smith
In case you thought there was no risk of your taxes going up again, think again. Washington isn't done with you yet. | 01/09/13 16:16:35 By - By Anita Kumar and Kevin G. Hall
President Barack Obama is expected to name longtime Washington insider Jacob "Jack" Lew on Thursday as his next treasury secretary, a pivotal post as negotiations commence over raising the nation's debt ceiling and staving off controversial scheduled cuts in federal spending. | 01/09/13 17:49:30 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Making his case yet again for regulatory authority to reject "excessive" rates, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday singled out Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Co. for slapping "unreasonable" rate increases on more than 250,000 small-business policyholders. | 01/09/13 06:56:14 By - Mark Glover
Total U.S. health care spending hit $2.7 trillion in 2011, making for a three-year run of record-low annual spending growth after the onset of the Great Recession. | 01/07/13 19:25:54 By - By Tony Pugh
Almost 4 million homeowners might receive cash compensation and mortgage relief in a multi-billion-dollar settlement with 10 major banks, government regulators announced Monday. | 01/07/13 18:41:45 By - By Lindsay Wise and Kevin G. Hall
Absent an early deal to raise the nations debt ceiling, the federal government could run out of ways to pay creditors and Social Security recipients by mid-February, earlier than expected, according to a new analysis released Monday. | 01/07/13 17:19:11 By - By Kevin G. Hall
For every $5 the city of Lexington spends, $1 goes to its public pension obligations, proof that "our pension costs have spiraled out of control," Mayor Jim Gray said at a news conference Monday. | 01/07/13 16:22:21 By - John Cheves
Bank of America will pay mortgage giant Fannie Mae $3.6 billion and buy back more than 30,000 loans to resolve a long-running dispute between the two, the bank announced Monday. The Charlotte bank will pay more than $10 billion in total. | 01/07/13 13:13:51 By - Andrew Dunn
December marked another lukewarm month of hiring, the government said Friday in an employment report that suggested the economy had weathered "fiscal cliff" uncertainty but probably will muddle along for some time with subpar growth. | 01/04/13 17:41:08 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Although the nation avoided a fiscal crisis this week, some economists say the failure to come up with an overarching deal that addresses federal spending and the debt ceiling continues to hold back the U.S. economy. | 01/04/13 07:29:35 By - David Ranii
Lincolnton Furniture Company closed abruptly Thursday just one year after it was hailed by President Barack Obama as an example of the recovering U.S. economy. | 01/04/13 07:25:09 By - Cameron Steele
A day after the nation edged away from a fiscal cliff that had threatened economic doom, the realization that other ominous fiscal battles loom tempered any sense of celebration Wednesday in the nations capital. | 01/02/13 18:55:32 By - By David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall
Missouri is among half of U.S. states that are missing out on millions of dollars in tax revenue that could be collected on Internet sales. | 01/02/13 13:22:58 By - Diane Stafford
Sacramento's long-depressed housing market started ticking up early last year. Now the commercial real estate market, which has suffered from plunging rents and soaring vacancies, is stirring as well. | 01/02/13 06:50:08 By - Hudson Sangree and Phillip Reese
Rich and poor, young and old alike would be affected by the tentative deal to ease or avoid the effects of the fiscal cliff. | 12/31/12 23:09:25 By - By Kevin G. Hall
The tax man is coming in 2013. And hes wearing surgical scrubs and has a stethoscope around his neck. | 12/31/12 18:48:56 By - By Tony Pugh
The Senate passed an agreement early Tuesday to solve the nation's threatening fiscal crisis, a last minute plan to avert sweeping tax increases for most Americans and postponing cuts to government spending that economists say could have triggered a recession. | 12/31/12 18:47:59 By - By Anita Kumar and William Douglas
They dont manage crises. They manage BY crisis. The tortured bargaining by Washington politicians to avoid the higher taxes and drastic spending cuts due to take effect this week aimed at best at a small and temporary fix and provided a vivid reminder why the American political system is badly broken. | 12/31/12 18:47:33 By - David Lightman
Dont be surprised that you didnt know Kansas City owns a farm and a cutting-edge farm at that.
Danny Rotert, a longtime political insider to Kansas City government, had never heard of it until a couple of months ago. | 12/31/12 07:06:15 By - Karen DillonFor the third straight year, economists are only a bit more optimistic about prospects for growth and hiring than they were 12 months earlier. | 12/31/12 00:00:00 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Consumer confidence plunged sharply in December thanks to the political drama unfolding in the nations capital. | 12/27/12 15:52:56 By - By Kevin G. Hall
In a twist to the debate over global warming, melting Arctic sea ice is making it easier to transport the fossil fuels that produce the planet-warming gases, which appear to be causing it to thaw in the first place. | 12/26/12 14:41:27 By - By Sean Cockerham
Short sales of homes where the seller owes more than the home is worth have surged this year in the Carolinas, driven by interest from investors, a streamlined process and an expiring U.S. tax credit. | 12/26/12 07:24:50 By - Kerry Singe
With millions of baby boomers reaching retirement age, fears are mounting of the economic impact if they follow the pattern of previous generations by curbing spending and draining Social Security and Medicare benefits. | 12/24/12 00:00:00 By - By Franco Ordonez and Casey Conley
Most businesses say California's new cap-and-trade program, designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, is a job killer that will suck billions of dollars out of the economy. | 12/20/12 06:47:18 By - Dale Kasler
Ever since she lost her graphic design job at a printing company in April, Dorothy Winn of Fresno, Calif., has been looking for that elusive "next job" and wondering how long she can hold on without it. | 12/18/12 18:58:23 By - By Tony Pugh
A Republican "fiscal cliff" proposal to change the way that cost-of-living adjustments are handled in federal programs has sparked renewed interest in a broader overhaul of the way Social Security benefits are calculated. | 12/13/12 17:53:08 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Koch Industries is ramping up its hiring and plans to add a 210,000-square-foot building to its 37th Street North headquarters campus, the company said Thursday. | 12/13/12 12:03:08 By - Jerry Siebenmark
Glen Cope owns 500 head of cattle on about 2,500 acres near Aurora, Mo. Like most farmers and ranchers he's worried about the weather, the price he gets for his product, and the cost of fuel and feed needed to run his operation. But as 2012 winds to a close, Cope -- and his neighbors -- say they're more worried about what might happen to their farms and families when they die. | 12/12/12 13:28:17 By - Dave Helling
Offering greater clarity to financial markets and politicians, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of saying it would continue its controversial bond buying and other steps to stimulate the economy until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5 percent or below and stays there. | 12/12/12 13:19:32 By - Kevin G. Hall
Gigi Hazelzet loves Christmas and watching her 4-year-old Yorkie, Lulu, unwrap her presents under the tree. First she sniffs and then attacks, ripping through gift wrapping and bows to find her new treat. his year, pet owners like Hazelzet are expected to spend $5 billion on gifts for their dogs and cats, according to the American Pet Owner's Association. | 12/12/12 12:51:07 By - Jennifer Rich
North America could be come a net exporter of natural gas by about 2020, Irving-based Exxon Mobil says in its latest outlook for world energy markets | 12/11/12 12:23:37 By - Jim Fuquay
It sounds like a bit of leftover mischief from the energy crisis: an electricity trader from Houston accused of hobbling California's power supply, leading to possible blackouts. | 12/10/12 12:35:58 By - Dale Kasler
Science, technology, engineering and math the fields collectively known as STEM are all the rage these days. Florida state leaders are so eager for more STEM students that they may even create discounted college tuition for students who pursue those fields. | 12/10/12 06:54:07 By - Michael Vasquez
The Kansas City Star investigated what the industry calls bladed or needled beef, and found the process exposes Americans to a higher risk of E. coli poisoning. While exact figures are difficult to come by, USDA surveys show that more than 90 percent of beef producers are using it. | 12/09/12 00:00:00 By - By Mike McGraw
A surprise drop in the jobless rate Friday and a new measurement showing a sharp drop in consumer sentiment underscore what's at stake for a sluggish economic recovery threatened by the coming political showdown in the nation's capital. | 12/07/12 16:07:15 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A major new study for the U.S. Department of Energy supports controversial efforts to sendnatural gas to foreign nations, a conclusion that could push the president to approve exports over the objections of those who say it would hurt the country. | 12/05/12 18:02:06 By - By Sean Cockerham
While proposals to turn green-leaning Washington state into a major exporter of coal to China have caused an uproar in coastal communities, the heated debate is largely absent from other places along the industry's expected trade route to Asia. | 12/05/12 15:22:34 By - By Curtis Tate and Kristi Pihl
Even amid high unemployment, California farmers say they long for a larger labor force. | 12/05/12 07:09:20 By - Mark Glover
You might have noticed that TV weatherman Willard Scott's morning roll call of people celebrating 100-plus years on the planet seems to grow longer and longer. According to the U.S. Census, the number of American centenarians has roughly doubled in the past 20 years. | 12/04/12 13:12:33 By - Mary Meehan
With consumers buying more each year online, brick-and-mortar retailers are working harder to add entertainment to their mix from American Girls scavenger hunts to Chips Chocolate Factorys fudge-making tours to the Art of Shavings product demonstrations. | 12/04/12 13:05:07 By - Joyce Davis
Democrats and Republicans aren't the only ones divided over how to fix the nation's fiscal problems. Big business and small business have very different views on whether changes to personal income taxes or corporate taxes should be part of the fix. | 12/04/12 03:00:00 By - By Kevin G. Hall
In more than 35 years as a certified public accountant, Greg Sevier said this year has probably been the most challenging one in which to do tax planning for clients. | 12/03/12 13:43:51 By - Jerry Siebenmark
Browsing for the best deal on the Internet during this holiday season can make even the savviest shopper feel like a high-stakes gambler. | 11/30/12 12:54:18 By - By Lindsay Wise
Sacramento-based McClatchy Co., which owns The Bee, offered to buy back up to $700 million worth of bonds that mature in 2017. | 11/29/12 06:50:05 By - Dale Kasler
President Barack Obama is serious about compromising on higher income-tax rates for the rich, but other Democrats have failed to offer specifics on what spending they're willing to cut, the co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform said Wednesday. | 11/28/12 15:34:11 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Retailers, economists and industry analysts all expect holiday sales this year to surpass 2011 totals, meaning the sluggish economy wont be playing the role of Grinch. Deeper in the expected sales numbers, however, are trends that highlight an uneven recovery and turmoil in the retail sector. | 11/27/12 18:44:15 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Six U.S. senators from West Coast states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to conduct a refinery-by-refinery probe to determine the causes of punishing gasoline price spikes earlier this year. | 11/27/12 17:44:18 By - By Kevin G. Hall
In our fast-paced world, more and more American workers are taking work home. Sensitive documents both electronic and paper are being transported from offices to homes, sometimes with stops in parking lots of restaurants, bars, grocery stores and gyms. And along the way, thefts of personal information are occurring. | 11/27/12 12:32:17 By - Karen Dillon
It's a little tough to feel jolly this holiday season, if you're a small-business owner. Bruised by the recession and uneasy about the post-election economy, America's small businesses face yet another big unknown: whether consumers are feeling festive or frugal. | 11/23/12 06:39:34 By - Claudia Buck
Marling Sequeira has her Thanksgiving all planned: turkey, trimmings and pumpkin pie at her boyfriends in Miami, then a moonlit drive to Walmart to snag a 72-inch Samsung TV on sale for $800. | 11/21/12 06:52:55 By - Ina Paiva Cordle
More homeowners in the Carolinas and around the country are receiving help on their mortgages from Bank of America, Wells Fargo and three other large servicers as the banks accelerate the relief programs mandated by a national legal settlement. | 11/20/12 07:05:33 By - Andrew Dunn
The number of people on food stamps is up across Georgia and the nation, and even affluent Houston County is no exception | 11/19/12 18:12:29 By - Wayne Crenshaw
Federal regulators on Monday announced investigations into possible violations of the law by mortgage lenders and brokers suspected of false or deceptive advertising. | 11/19/12 17:54:48 By - By Lindsay Wise
Need another encouraging sign that the U.S. economy is slowly on the mend?
Look to this years Thanksgiving holiday travel forecasts. | 11/19/12 07:20:18 By - Lynn HorsleyA mad scramble ... for Twinkies. | 11/19/12 06:52:01 By - Edward Ortiz
The nation's high unemployment rate captures the headlines with each monthly jobs report, yet many Americans may be surprised to learn that real earnings, when adjusted for inflation, have declined across most industries and sectors since the Great Recession. Since 2002, in fact, it's effectively been a lost decade for workers. | 11/15/12 16:07:29 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A report released today that examines income inequality shows the gap between the rich and the poor has grown wider in Mississippi than in any other state. | 11/15/12 14:02:01 By - Donna Harris
Ross Waycaster designed the first of his four mobile apps as a high school senior in Tupelo, Miss., a game called Super Marrio Jump that's been downloaded from the Apple store more than 20,000 times, earning him more than $16,000. | 11/15/12 13:28:12 By - By Rob Hotakainen
New requests for unemployment aid have dropped to a four-year low in South Florida, as the labor market slowly recovers from the recession. | 11/15/12 07:07:06 By - Douglas Hanks
West Coast gasoline price spikes in May and October were widely blamed on refinery outages, but new research to be released at a California hearing Thursday shows that refiners continued to produce gasoline in periods when the public was told the contrary. | 11/14/12 19:09:45 By - By Kevin G. Hall
As one of the first major acts in its lame-duck session, the House of Representatives is expected to vote to approve permanent trade relations with Russia, possibly by Friday, but free-trade deals might face a considerably tougher go in 2013. | 11/14/12 16:19:27 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Businesses large and small have much at stake in the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff and are organizing advertising and lobbying efforts in a bid to prevent the Obama administration and Congress from further damaging the U.S. economy. | 11/13/12 18:22:11 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A question that concerns Karen Spencer and many of America's 15 million childless baby boomers is more emotional and poignant: Without offspring to help them, who will take care of them when they grow old? | 11/13/12 15:27:49 By - Anita Creamer
Washington apple shippers and packers say this year's fresh apple crop will reach record highs despite early worries about hail damage and not enough pickers. | 11/09/12 13:05:41 By - Kisti Pihl
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner began the public versions of their negotiations Friday over the impending fiscal cliff, with each sounding notes of both compromise and caution. | 11/09/12 12:24:13 By - David Lightman and Anita Kumar
California's recently streaking export segment is streaking in the wrong direction. California businesses shipped goods valued at $12.87 billion in September, down about 4.6 percent from $13.49 billion in September 2011, according to an analysis of Thursday's U.S. Commerce Department trade figures by Beacon Economics, a consulting firm with offices in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. | 11/09/12 06:55:40 By - Mark Glover
Congress returns to the nation's capital next week with hopes of a big deal but strong odds favoring another piecemeal approach to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, in a race against the clock to address tax and budget issues while keeping the U.S. economy from tumbling back into recession. | 11/08/12 16:18:21 By - By Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman
No matter who wins the election Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management is going to have to thread a needle to find routes Idaho Power Co. and Rocky Mountain Power can use for the Gateway West power line across southern Idaho. | 11/05/12 13:15:42 By - Rocky Barker
With the presidential election just days away and an apparent dead heat, the government reported Friday that employers added a stronger-than-expected 171,000 jobs, a boost to President Barack Obama's argument that the economy is steadily improving. | 11/02/12 12:01:43 By - By Kevin G. Hall
When the Russian steel company Severstal broke ground on a $550 million expansion of its plant last November in Columbus, Miss., the state's newly elected governor, Republican Phil Bryant, showed up for the grand opening. | 10/31/12 16:00:02 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Some vocal health experts say little or no candy a sweet idea, especially in light of frightening rates of childhood obesity coupled with record Halloween candy sales $2.3 billion last year, according to the National Confectioners Association. Now theyre howling for a Halloween makeover. | 10/31/12 13:19:32 By -
Starting Friday, those receiving unemployment benefit money from the Georgia Department of Labor will have no choice. Recipients will be required to either choose direct deposit to have cash deposited into their checking accounts something the state already has been doing for several years or opt to be compensated by a debit card with a Mastercard logo | 10/30/12 12:58:21 By - Tony Adams
Confronting the gravest crisis in its 77-year history, Raley's has told its workers it's "losing millions of dollars" and needs wage concessions to remain viable. Raley's Chief Executive Michael Teel, facing a possible strike later this week, has told workers that 40 of its stores are losing money, some as much as $2 million a year apiece. | 10/30/12 12:26:29 By - Dale Kasler
Working up a holiday shopping list? New cellphone, iPad Mini, NetFlix subscription check, check, check. Now dont forget the wireless plan that makes all those family gifts work on the move. Pricing has changed dramatically since last year. | 10/30/12 12:14:44 By - Mark Davis
California motorists are finally seeing gas prices retreat below $4 a gallon after disruptions at oil refineries in the state sent them soaring for months. | 10/30/12 06:59:57 By - Mark Glover
If you're paying bills at the University of Kentucky, chances are you're no longer using a conventional paper check. Bank customers are saying a lingering farewell to their paper checkbooks and choosing electronic forms of payment, whether debit and credit cards or online withdrawals. They no longer get back a monthly packet of canceled checks along with their paper statements, which many view online. Great Britain already has set a sunset date for the use of paper checks: By 2018, consumers there will use other forms of payment exclusively. | 10/29/12 10:20:46 By - Cheryl Truman
The U.S. economy accelerated between July through September, growing at an annualized rate of 2 percent, the government said Friday in a report that slightly exceeded expectations. | 10/26/12 12:25:21 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Never mind that NHL team owners and players both are losers, so far, in a lockout that has canceled the Carolina Hurricanes first home game of the season originally set for Friday night against the New York Rangers. | 10/26/12 07:10:55 By - Bruce Siceloff
Four of Washington state's Benton County's top law enforcers joked and laughed while taking time Wednesday to read a book about police officers to preschoolers at Benton Franklin Head Start in Richland, but their visit was about a serious subject.The longtime cops and prosecutor spoke out about the lack of funding for quality early childhood education programs and how investing in kids can reduce crime and save money | 10/25/12 15:23:57 By - Paula Horton
Up and down the central San Joaquin Valley, a growing number of people are taking advantage of technology that frees them from cramped cubicles, loud officemates and commuting to the office. | 10/25/12 14:49:30 By - Tim Sheehan
Over the course of the long presidential campaign, neither candidate has offered much detail on how he'd boost trade, a main engine of economic growth and an increasingly important source of earnings for U.S. farmers and ranchers. | 10/24/12 19:03:21 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Business and government experts gather to ponder the changing face of trade and to examine how the Internet is shrinking the world for consumers and exporters. | 10/24/12 17:27:26 By - By Rob Hotakainen
A long-awaited free trade agreement with Panama that will reduce or eliminate tariffs on U.S. exports and provide access to the Central American countrys lucrative services industry is scheduled to go into effect Oct. 31. | 10/23/12 06:59:01 By - Mimi Whitefield
Lost in the campaign arguments over who's to blame for a weak economy and sluggish hiring is what has and hasn't been done to improve home sales and housing finance, key causes of the nation's severe financial crisis and ones that continue to drag against a robust recovery. | 10/22/12 17:48:48 By - By Kevin G. Hall
There were fewer unemployed people looking for work in Missouri and Kansas in September than in August, but the job creation picture was mixed. | 10/19/12 11:58:19 By - Diane Stafford
For the nation's 45 million elderly Social Security recipients, the bad news tempered the good: They learned this week that a 2013 cost-of-living increase will raise their monthly Social Security income but by only a fraction. | 10/19/12 07:09:21 By - Anita Creamer
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday that U.S. farm exports are on pace to set a record high in 2013 but that sales will suffer if Congress does not resurrect a $200 million-a-year foreign marketing program that expired Oct. 1. | 10/18/12 16:20:33 By - By Rob Hotakainen
When Russia formally joined the World Trade Organization as its newest member in August, more than 150 countries began expanding trade with the ninth-largest economy in the world. | 10/18/12 16:04:43 By - By Rob Hotakainen
With more than 2,200 flight attendants opting to take a buyout and leave American Airlines, the bankrupt carrier made an unusual announcement Wednesday: It needs to hire 1,500 flight attendants. | 10/18/12 07:18:58 By - Andrea Ahles
It was supposed to provide a measure of restitution on behalf of homeowners who lost equity in the market collapse or lost their homes in the "robo-signing" foreclosure scandal. | 10/18/12 00:00:00 By - By Tony Pugh
The Obama administration must decide in coming weeks if itll temporarily lift requirements to blend ethanol into the nations gasoline supply. The issue has been largely dormant on the campaign trail, but its critical to the success or failure of the next generation of biofuel plants under construction today that wont rely on corn to make fuel. | 10/17/12 16:46:39 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Kentucky Utilities and affiliated company Louisville Gas and Electric announced Monday that they expect to shut down three coal-fired electrical generation plants months ahead of schedule as part of their effort to comply with new federal environmental regulations. | 10/16/12 11:40:23 By - Scott Sloan
Just 15 months into its existence, the federal governments newest consumer watchdog agency faces an uncertain future. | 10/15/12 15:51:33 By - By Lindsay Wise
Jamie Dimon, America's most celebrated banker, heaped criticism on regulators and politicians during a high-profile visit to the nation's capital Wednesday, warning that overregulation is inhibiting business and that political stalemates threaten the economy. | 10/10/12 17:40:57 By - By Kevin G. Hall
One of the nation's largest credit reporting agencies has agreed to pay $393,000 to settle charges that it improperly sold lists of consumers who were late on their mortgage payments, government regulators announced Wednesday. | 10/10/12 15:31:20 By - By Lindsay Wise
The world aviation industry will continue to grow in the coming decades, creating business opportunities for the North Texas economy, speakers said Monday at an industry conference in Fort Worth. | 10/09/12 12:59:20 By - Bob Cox
Critics charged Friday that the Obama administration cooked the books on the unemployment rate to help President Barack Obama. The charges are unfounded. | 10/05/12 18:07:24 By - By Kevin G. Hall
A sharp, unexpected drop in the unemployment rate Friday to 7.8 percent, a 44-month low, threatened to shake up the race for the White House and put the obscure Bureau of Labor Statistics in the crossfire amid unsubstantiated claims that the employment numbers are being cooked. | 10/05/12 16:30:56 By - By Kevin G. Hall
Lenovo is portraying its relatively modest plans to manufacture personal computers in Guilford County, North Carolina creating 115 jobs and investing $2 million as a first step that could lead to much more. | 10/03/12 07:20:42 By - David Ranii
A civil lawsuit against investment giant JPMorgan Chase, announced Tuesday in Washington by New York's top prosecutor, is aimed at the root of the nation's brutal 2008 financial crisis. Consumer advocates, however, questioned why it took so long and why prosecutors didn't bring a criminal case. | 10/02/12 17:48:48 By - By Kevin G. Hall and Lindsay Wise
'Tis the season but which one?
Seasonal stores are now selling everything from Batman costumes to Santa Claus candy dishes. The stores are merging the seasons, figuring if they get a jump on the season any season they will get a bigger percentage of that holidays sales. | 10/02/12 16:38:32 By - Joyce SmithThe Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on what officials say is deceptive advertising by energy-efficient window manufacturers, including two companies that President Barack Obama lauded as part of his administration's "green stimulus" initiative. | 10/02/12 14:34:23 By - By Lindsay Wise
American Express has agreed to refund $85 million to 250,000 customers after an investigation uncovered numerous violations of consumer protection laws, ranging from illegal late fees to age discrimination against credit card applicants, federal regulators said Monday. | 10/01/12 18:21:20 By - By Lindsay Wise
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Friday that he expects the long-delayed U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement to go into effect shortly. | 09/28/12 17:40:33 By - Mimi Whitefield
If researcher's predictions hold true, California's San Joaquin Valley's multi-billion dollar agriculture industry will be hit with longer stretches of hot temperatures, fewer colder days and shrinking water supplies. | 09/27/12 12:31:57 By - Robert Rodriguez
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This is a little sparse on details, but the original project is define here; [1]
Here's the rough parts list from the blog;
Arduino Mini Pro USB-Serial converter 12x TLC5940PWP (SMD) Led drivers 60x RGB SMD LEDs DS1307 + battery to keep track of time Loads of circuitboards (12 black ones and 60 white ones)
Obviously, we'll need something more concrete for construction of one of these. I wonder if we can use an Arduino Nano to replace the first 2 items. We could do a custom shield to hold the DS1307 and a small battery for backup power, and connectors for LEDs
Construction Notes: The ring of LED bezel's appear to be separate. If we try to use one or several pieces of plastic (acrylic?) to avoid having 60 separate blocks, I think we'd end up "bleeding" too much light to adjacent positions. It might cut costs to avoid all of the connectors that were used. It makes it harder to service, but these things really shouldn't wear out.
Parts details;
TLC5940PWP - LED driver - http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tlc5940.html (samples ordered) driver library: [2]
DS1307 - real-time clock - http://www.maxim-ic.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/2688 (samples ordered) - helpful [3]
Tri-color LED - http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=105 or http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7844
Arduino Nano - instead of Pro Mini bc. includes USB - http://www.robotshop.com/arduino-nan-v-3-4.html
Laser cut parts - one source of many that google returns - http://www.customlasercutting.com/
11/12/10 - received 3 samples of the LED driver in DIP package. should be easy to bread-board an develop the display portion


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I love the picture with the briefcase and the grim expression. It looks like he's going to work and he hasn't finished his presentation to the board yet.
I think he probably could stand to have a few more ranks in Knowledge and Craft. Sure it's a lame suit but he did build it himself. A 6 total bonus is just about enough to design silly things like the Garden Weasel.
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Ok thanks, i'll try yo debug it tomorrow. I've been working on this program for 2 days now, and i'm starting to get a bad headache
Ok thanks, i'll try yo debug it tomorrow. I've been working on this program for 2 days now, and i'm starting to get a bad headache
You should use the swap_interval extension to override the users vsync selection in drivers. Anyway, all my results seem to make sense so far. Nice program.
EDIT: (deleted a couple of statements about the driver settings for vsync which I realized were incorrect once I though about them)
[This message has been edited by Nakoruru (edited 09-23-2002).]
Nice and useful app! Good work!
I tried some times ago to understand in the same way how the geometry (T&L) performance can change when varying the various transfer, format vertex parameters.
I did a post on this subject but got no answer (http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boa...ML/007347.html ) Probably i should have added something to download and test :-)
Just to add my 5 cent. to the discussion, i noticed some things that probably could be useful:
1) when speaking about rendering high triangle-count scenes, the fact that we are rendering a real big scene and not rendering ten times the same array, affects a lot the performance. (and not only when your scene does not fit al in agp or video mem
2) The size of the vertex arrays blocks matters (best is from 1k to 7k vertices).
3) the length of the strips little changes the speed. (its important above 30M/sec).
4) i could degrade performance to 30M/sec by avoiding the vertex caching. (100vertex/turn)
3) if i reorder vertices in the block and performance drops considerably, depending on how much (and expecially how locally) i permutate.
Nakoruru: that makes sense, i'll disable vsync for the tests.
Funes: didn't know your 5th cent was worthing your 3th Anyway, you've got excellent ideas, but i'm hesitating to add too many options. For every option i add, it multiplies by 2 the full-test time (since it tries all the possible combinations).. by implementing everything, the full test will take many hours! Ideally i should try to restrict the tests to the important combinations, but how to make sure no important one is missed ? Any ideas are welcome..
When I implemented this kind of benchmark a while ago, I made an 'interactive' program. It was a dialog box where the user could switch options on and off on the fly. For example, you had a slider for tesselation level, radio buttons to choose between immediate / VA / CVA ... This way the user can test only things that interest him and get the results immediately (by displaying FPS and MTris/sec info). Problem is it's not well suited to generate nice reports like your program does.
Another feature for your wishlist : it would be nice to have ATI_map_object_buffer support (this extension has been around for months but specs are still not publicly available. Maybe some ATI registered developers out there could send you these specs (or maybe this extension could be documented ^^)).
Ysaneya: i know, the number of test is exponential, but in my humble opinion, the main problem is not running the tests (the night is long... :-) ), but browsing the whole mess of results. I think that just looking at the fastest combination is not very useful. What i would like to know is what is the most discriminating factors when rendering. In other words, let assume that you have 2^n timings each one corresponding to the enabling/disabling of one of <n> different "things" (strip, cva, short/long indexes, chache aware primitives, video/agp... etc) the most discriminating factor should be the one that minimizes the ratio between the sum of timings with that feature enabled and the sum of all timings with that feature disabled.
Probably this should be a good hint for everyone on what path you should choose when starting to optimize your code...
If you look in ATi's glATi.h file it's pretty much obviuos what the extension does and how to use it. It exports these functions:Originally posted by kehziah:
Another feature for your wishlist : it would be nice to have ATI_map_object_buffer support (this extension has been around for months but specs are still not publicly available. Maybe some ATI registered developers out there could send you these specs (or maybe this extension could be documented ^^)).
void *glMapObjectBufferATI(GLuint buffer);
void glUnmapObjectBufferATI(GLuint buffer);
It's like Lock()/Unlock() on D3D vertex buffers.
Usually not all combinations are interesting. If I have found out from testing that display lists are faster than immediate mode I might not care if immediate mode is faster with strips, or with short indices etc. Instead of ranking all possible combinations you might rank each group separately and then combine the results. I.e Video mem VAR is fastest, shorts are faster than longs, strips are faster than lists. Then you can guess what the fastest mode is and do more exhaustive testing on that.
Nice app, thanks.
I would like to see options to benchmark with texturing and also only using 1 light not 3. I know this could make for a lot more combinations but I think most apps have texture mapping and either 0 or 1 gl light.
i agree, great app.
Display Lists actually just pip Video VAR on my machine (although the difference is tiny...).. both about 22MTris (GF3, athlon 1800+)


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