As we work to recover from the terrible flooding and storm damage in our area, I wanted to provide you with some information on state and federal recovery efforts, and what will be happening in the coming weeks.

"Workers of the world, unite!" - Karl Marx "There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death." - Che Guevara "I'm not proposing anything radical here.

When I begin teaching a new class on energy technology, I often start by writing a single word on the white board - scale. We then look at the printed handouts that each student has received. They contain table 1.

Stockton, Calif. recently filed bankruptcy. It's the largest city in U.S. history to do so. The mayor of Scranton, Penn. recently declared his town's broke too.

Ed Rogers Special to The Washington Post The 2012 race has produced a series of earnest, left-wing Republican bashing. In arguing that the "popular things 1/8President Obama 3/8 wants to do are being blocked by Republicans," E.J. Dionne Jr.

"Outsourcing" has become such a dirty word that it's hard to believe there could actually be something called the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.

By Steve Razidlo Superintendent District 181 Nearly three years ago members of the Brainerd Senior Center approached the school district with a request to use school district property to grow vegetables.

Bloomberg News The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View: The presidential campaign seems to have time-traveled back to 1992, when independent candidate Ross Perot thought he heard the "giant sucking sound" of American jobs moving to Mexico.

By Mark Buchanan Bloomberg News Over the past three decades, the global financial system has become more dynamic and interconnected, more concentrated and complicated than ever before.

The U.S. economy added just 80,000 jobs in June(Mediocre Jobs Report), a third straight month of weak hiring. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.