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The health care system is sick. Or broken, or in desperate need of repair. But whatever you want to call it, it's not all bad out there. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is aiming some of its dollars -- $155 million, to be precise -- at 126 health centers around the country.When...

Other than a one-time payment of $250 to disabled veterans and making it easier for employers to hire vets, the federal government's economic stimulus package won't give much immediate help to the estimated 24 million veterans in the United States. Most of the just under $4 billion for veterans in...

Let the "bridge to nowhere" jokes begin. Governor Sarah Palin's home state of Alaska is now seeking bids on that state's first declared stimulus project. The mammoth infrastructure investment involves the complete reconstruction of a pier and causeway at the city of Gustavus. According to the...

For the first time in many months, I finally have cause to feel good about two very important things. Those two things are employment and construction. The Obama administration's stimulus package is already beginning to create meaningful chatter in government chambers across the nation. State and...