StimulateUs

The Federal government is the nation's biggest employer, and it plans to hire even more this year, thanks to President Obama's stimulus package and recently proposed budget . Hiring by the executive branch will increase 15.6% for the 2010 fiscal year (which officially starts October 1). Salaries...

At a time when many counties would gladly trade their dwindling bank accounts for stimulus money, one county in Ohio is doing all it can to turn down the federal money. Warren County has decided to turn down federal stimulus money from the Ohio Department of Transportation and is attempting to...

When President Obama referred to shovel-ready projects to be funded by the latest stimulus plan, I thought he meant it literally -- pushing dirt, pouring concrete, laying pipe. Apparently the Ohio Department of Transportation sees it differently, as it plans to use $57 million to do studies of...

With unemployment often comes the problem of being uninsured, and money from the federal stimulus package is finding its way to help those newly uninsured at community health centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.Community health centers in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have received more than...

In what seems like a headline from The Onion, Ohio has directed $1.5 million of its stimulus money toward the construction of an anti-suicide barrier on the All American Bridge in Akron Ohio. The bridge, which has seen three suicides in the past two years, will get the new fencing as part of a...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to appoint a state economic stimulus czar to ensure California gets its share of the $787 billion economic stimulus package approved by Congress and signed by President Obama. The state already has a recovery Web site to track how the federal stimulus...

Shovel ready. These two words are the cornerstone of President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and three states nestled in the heartland of America have taken this to heart. The Dayton Business Journal reports that the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments has...

While many pundits bemoan the loss of manufacturing jobs, I'm more concerned about our nation's long-term plan to promote innovation. The U.S. has long been a leader in invention, thanks to the best higher education system in the world and generous federal funding for scientific research. However,...

You know the saying: For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.It comes from a rhyme, where someone doesn't have a nail and can't fit a horse with a shoe (yeah, this wasn't exactly written yesterday), and because there was no horse, no rider went into battle, and the kingdom crumbles into a...

I have an uncle who is a car salesman, and from the weary look he gives me every time I ask him how sales are going, I know that the tax breaks from the stimulus package, the tax credits designed to encourage car buying, haven't exactly kicked in yet.But give it time. The American Recovery and...