The Senate passed a stimulus plan today with a 61-37 vote. Now lawmakers from the House and Senate must find a compromise between their bills. The Senate made more than $108 billion in spending cuts, and…
Barack Obama will be sworn in as president and Joe Biden will be sworn in as vice president around 10 a.m. today. We’ll have an extra edition on the inauguration, available at 4 p.m., with it’s own extra edition Weatherbird.
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Some say President-elect Barack Obama’s election has the same historical significance as the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln to free slaves, and the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., best known for his “I Have a…
After the Tuesday’s inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama will face five big issues:
Obama’s inauguration will draw inspiration from President Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration — Obama is even swearing in on the same Bible…
Edna J. Patterson-Petty of East St. Louis created a quilt that will be displayed at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., to honor Barack Obama as the 44th president.
Patterson-Petty’s quilt, which she named “Road to Redemption,” features a winding road…
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Rajiv Tarigopula, a junior at Parkway West High School, is the winner of the Inaugural Essay Contest sponsored by Lindenwood University. High school students were asked to write an essay about what they would change as president. Rajiv wrote about… |
President-elect Barack Obama says he wants to hit the ground running on Jan. 20, and he’s asked Congress to have an economic stimulus package ready for him to sign when he takes office.
Will Obamanomics be the cure for the nation’s ills?…
President-elect Barack Obama tells us the economy is likely to worsen, and he called on Congress to pass another stimulus package quickly… His team is now in place, and they say they’re ready to get the country moving again. Stocks surged on the news.
Obama names economic…
The nation — and world — is still reacting to president-elect Barack Obama’s win. We’re planning expanded coverage, too, in the coming days. Already, we sold out of Wednesday’s paper, and printed an extra edition that will be available at…
No matter who you voted for, Election Day was historic: America elected its first black president. Many people have high expectations of president-elect Barack Obama. He’s already getting down to business. With 10 weeks until Inauguration Day, Obama is building…
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