Is Puerto Rico poor? Gil the Jenius has his say....

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named CEMEX USA a 2009 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions....

CREF, one of America's largest institutional real estate investors, announced today that it has lowered the energy intensity of its real estate portfolio by 3.6 percent since the organization announced its goal ......

I live in Rochester, New York, and compared to the NYC and Philly suburbs I've previously called home, Rochester is on the less expensive cost-of-living side. Even in Monroe County, though, the monthly Medicaid reimbursement rate (what the government considers the "average" monthly cost of care) is ...

Chris Brown’s manager Tina Davis has vehemently denied sending her client the text message, which is said to have triggered his recent row with girlfriend Rihanna and she’s blasted rumours there was any kind of relationship between them other than a professional one. Yesterday Ms Davis released ...

Via MDC Press Release - MDC National Treasurer and Deputy Agriculture Minister – designate, Hon. Roy Bennett who was yesterday granted a US$5 000 bail was this morning released from Mutare Prison. Thousands of MDC supporters thronged the prison to witness the release of Hon. Bennett, who walked ou...

There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community, a U.S. Senate committee hearing concluded Wednesday. The hearing, conducted by the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, focused on the attempted recru...

David Leonhardt digs up some old writing about the problem with bailouts: Sixteen years ago, two economists published a research paper with a delightfully simple title: “Looting.� The economists were George Akerlof, who would later win a Nobel Prize, and Paul Romer, the renowned expert on econom...

Next step: an energy stimulus: Congress will take up at least three major energy measures this year: a bill to upgrade the national electric grid; a bill to mandate that all utilities nationwide get a certain percentage of their electricity from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc.; and the cap-an...

President Obama issued his first signing statement, reserving a right to bypass dozens of provisions in a $410 billion government spending bill even as he signed it into law....