Economic Stimulus Plan

Football fans may like it, but the neighbors aren't so happy. Remember the big new stadium Tulane is building? It's still scheduled to open before the start of the 2014 season, but Vanessa Bolano found some neighbors who are ready for a fight right now....

A $3.2 million center where people will learn about climate change and the threat of sea level rise is slated to be built in the Lower 9th Ward with federal and private dollars. The center will be constructed near a floodwall that broke during...

Next up, Sarah Palin. The spotlight at the three-day Southern Republican Leadership Conference turns Friday to the 2008 vice presidential nominee. The former Alaska governor is among the potential GOP contenders to challenge President Barak Obama in...

NEW ORLEANS- Some Louisiana banking companies that took money from the U.S. Treasury are having second thoughts about the resulting strings, including limits on executive cash bonuses and incentives. The head of Lafayette-based MidSouth Bancorp...

Human recovery must be addressed in any federal economic stimulus plan BATON ROUGE, La. (February 2, 2009) - The United States is currently undergoing a period of great tumult. A deepening national recession tied to a greater world-wide economic...

National Democrats paid for attack advertisements targeting three Louisiana Republican congressmen, in their home districts, to highlight GOP votes against President Barack Obama's proposal to stimulate the economy. Joseph Cao of New Orleans, Bill...

The U.S. House has approved the $787 billion economic stimulus plan -- without a single Republican vote, including Congressman Joseph Cao who represents an overwhelmingly Democratic 1st Congressional District and who had indicated he might vote for it,...

Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana congressional delegation's list of priorities for the new White House administration and new Congress centers on hurricane recovery, health care and energy issues. They include aid for farmers whose crops were...

Louisiana is dropping a plan to seek about $300 million of federal aid to launch passenger railroad service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Although similar proposals have failed in recent years, state officials said earlier that a new proposal...

Political upheaval in Europe reached a new apex over the weekend when French voters threw out their incumbent president and Greeks gave the heave-ho to the ruling parliamentary coalition. The results suggest that a new consensus is emerging in Europe in...

TALLAHASSEE – Imagine what could happen if politicians trusted voters to make up their own minds about what government can do. Democrats sound as if the power of collective action manifested in bureaucratic form can be harnessed to unleash...

In the Republican race to represent Indiana's 2nd Congressional District this fall, the choice at Tuesday's primary might seem a little bit like déjà vu. Tuesday's ballot features Jackie Walorski -- who won the primary in 2010 before losing to Joe...