Topic: Washington, DC

IRS extends tax filing deadline to April 18

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service kicked off the U.S. tax filing season, announcing on Tuesday that taxpayers will have until April 18, 2011 to file their 2010 returns and pay their tax bills because of a holiday on April 15.The ...

The Glebe in Tough Spot After Default

The article reports that the investors who bought $55.5 million of bonds to help construct the Glebe, an upscale continuing care retirement community, have faced major uncertainties with their investments in Washington, D.C. THE DAILY NEWSPAPER OF PUBLIC FINANCE Monday, October 6,2008 ...

Changes Urged for Bailout

The article reports on the insistency of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee leaders regarding the modification of the $700 billion bailout proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush's administration. Excerpt from Article: Senate OKs package that includes PABs for Ike victims Page ...
Want to give a major tax cut to everyone who files taxes without costing the government a cent. You make a tax code that anyone could fill out on the back of a three by five card and save the American people ...

State wealth tax vote shadows nationwide debate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vote 3,000 miles from the U.S. Capitol over tax rates, pitting the likes of Amazon's Jeff Bezos against Microsoft founder Bill Gates' father, shadows a wider national debate over how much tax the wealthy should pay.Voters will soon ...
Earlier I wrote about how to figure body mass index because I saw an article where the government, as part of the stimulus bill of 2009, will now require doctors to make a BMI measurement for all patients and keep it as ...

U.S. expands homeowner aid for jobless

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday nearly doubled to $4.1 billion the size of its foreclosure prevention program to help struggling homeowners hardest hit by falling home prices and rising unemployment.Unemployed homeowners in 17 states and the District of Columbia ...

Challenging Obama's Agenda

Since taking office President Obama and his liberal allies in Congress have promised to create jobs, even as their destructive policies are killing jobs and stifling economic growth, particularly with America's small businesses.. In the 10 year period from 1996 to 2006, ...
The federal government provides infrastructure investment grants to state and local governments, as well as private organizations, to help finance improvements to essential services. TIGER II Discretionary Grants Program The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created a number of infrastructure investment grants ...

Restoration of the DC War Memorial

In 2003, the DC War Memorial was listed by the DC Preservation League as one of the " Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be used to restore the DC War Memorial, with work beginning in August 2010. Related ...
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