Consumers still spending despite high gas prices
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 8th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Consumers still spending despite high gas prices
Shoppers shrugged off the cool temperatures and higher heating costs to give retailers a surprisingly solid March. (April 7)
Donald Trump buys Kluge winery
First there was Trump Ice spring water. Then Trump chocolate and Trump tea. Now comes Trump wine.
George Allen’s latest ‘gaffe’ (and what it says about his 2012 campaign)
David CriggerAPFormer senator George Allen (R-Va.) has stoked some racial controversy yet again. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger)On the surface, it looks like former senator George Allen (R-Va.) stepped in it again.
Government shutdown looks different to workers who toil in Capitol’s basement
It is a place of discarded desk chairs, lost tourists and workers with their names stitched on their shirts. This is a different U.S. Capitol— two levels below the one they show on C-SPAN — where people chop onions, haul furniture and cut hair.