Day: December 24, 2009

Deals behind publicly financed stadiums have backfired as a result of overly optimistic revenue assumptions.

Colorado Springs joins a growing list of cities that have eliminated their police helicopter units in the wake of steep budget cuts.

An order in Sonoma County, Calif., was reversed, allowing angels and other items deemed religious to go back on county Christmas trees, despite objections by an atheist.

For the roughly 160 million people who get insurance through an employer, the result of the long, angry health care debate may be just more of the same.

The 60-39 vote was for a $290 billion rise in the debt ceiling, and it allowed the House and Senate to adjourn until Jan. 19.

Thursday’s vote on health care was a highlight of Harry Reid’s career, one characterized in no small part by its sheer inscrutability.

Former sen. retreats to El Salvador to work with volunteers from a Christian charity to build homes.

Democrats and their allies rejoiced over their successful Christmas Eve vote, while Republicans sat scowling at their desks.

Their stands will shadow 2010, and the next decade.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has proposed a major overhaul of the way the Pentagon and State Department do nation-building, seeking to end friction between the bureaucracies by putting them jointly in charge of three huge new funds aimed at stabilizing strife-ridden countries.