Wages will be lower and more people will be unemployed, but the state’s economy should “finally hit bottom” this fall and begin a slow recovery, according to a forecast released by University of the Pacific.

It is not unusual for those who retire from high-level government jobs, to then hire themselves out as consultants.

At the near half-century mark of the Civil Rights Act, we’ve made great racial progress, writes columnist Charles Krauthammer. But the fundamental unfairness that underlies the racial spoils system continues to rankle.

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WASHINGTON — How bad is the current recession? Here’s one measure: the United States now has fewer jobs than it did nine years ago, even though the workforce — the number of people either working or looking for work — has grown by 12.5 million people since then.

The day was like so many others at my federal job at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Albany. I had already been at my desk for a few hours working some assigned cases and feeling some of the stress that goes with the job.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Ricci case – that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well – will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. While overturned on Ricci, she is protected by the four dissenting justices who upheld the side of the case she had taken as a …

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Ricci case - that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well - will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. While overturned on Ricci, she is protected by the four dissenting justices who upheld the side of the case she had taken as a …

BERRYVILLE — Studies show that there is a high rate of illiteracy in Carroll County. Shelly McCall, director of education and the Carroll County Center of North Arkansas Community College,…

In these 20 metros, spenders have cut back most on plastic purchases.