Social Security Races to ‘Negative’
WASHINGTON – Social Security’s annual surplus nearly evaporated in 2009 for the first time in 25 years as the recession led hundreds of thousands of workers to retire or claim disability. The impact of the recession is likely to hit the giant retirement system even harder this year and next. The Congressional Budget Office had [...]
Palin Back on the Campaign Trail
CYPRESS, Texas – Even Sarah Palin can’t outgun the Super Bowl. After rocker Ted Nugent appeared as the warm-up act, the woman Gov. Rick Perry introduced as “one of America’s superstar conservative leaders” on Sunday could not quite fill the big arena where she headlined her first political rally since 2008. When Palin began speaking [...]
Patrick’s Team Ready to Roll for NASCAR Debut
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Danica Patrick will decide today whether she’ll start her first NASCAR race Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. After she placed an impressive sixth in her stock car debut, her JR Motorsports team seems to have made up its mind. “I think she can do it,” crew chief Tony Eury Jr. said [...]
Nagin Out: New Orleans Gets a New Mayor
NEW ORLEANS – In an event-packed weekend here that included the New Orleans Saints’ first-ever trip to the Super Bowl and seven Mardi Gras parades, Mitch Landrieu, the state’s lieutenant governor and scion of a well-known Louisiana political family, captured enough attention to become the city’s 61st mayor. Landrieu received 66 percent of votes at [...]
Campaign Case May Be Headed for Court
WASHINGTON – As the Supreme Court nears the midpoint of its annual term and prepares to hear several momentous cases, one question looms: Will the justices’ split decision reversing past rulings and allowing new corporate spending in political races set the tone for the term, or will Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission be an [...]
‘Dear John’ Tops Box Office Weekend
After seven weekends in first place, Avatar was dethroned at the box office by the romance Dear John, which took in $32.4 million. But don’t shed any tears for James Cameron’s sci-fi epic: Avatar was No. 2 with $23.6 million, which raises its domestic total to $630.1 million and its worldwide record to $2.2 billion. [...]
The Saints Deserved to Win
MIAMI – They had hoped to trade in the perfect season for the perfect ending, but in the end, the Indianapolis Colts were left with nothing. Just a bitter, hollow feeling that will last well into the offseason as they try to figure out how another brilliant season could end so badly. Maybe the football [...]
Onside Kick Was Key to Saints Victory
MIAMI — It s an aptly named play the New Orleans Saints call “Ambush,” an onside kick Saints coach Sean Payton told his players they would use to start the second half of Sunday s Super Bowl. “Sean has big (guts) for that one,” Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey said. Shockey used a different word than “guts.” [...]
Tracy Porter Delivers Play of a Lifetime
MIAMI – A Hoosier from Louisiana did it for the Who Dats. Indianapolis quarterback and New Orleans native Peyton Manning did not get sacked Sunday night nor was he hit very much in the Super Bowl, but he will always remember an Indiana cornerback from Port Allen, La., named Tracy Porter. Porter delivered the remember-me [...]
Brees Leads Team, City to New Heights
USA TODAYMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Drew Brees, a career underdog, outdueled Peyton Manning, the NFL’s golden boy, lifting a franchise, a team and a city to once-unthinkable heights Sunday night in Super Bowl XLIV. For four seasons, Brees carried the football-fantasy dreams of New Orleans on his shoulder pads. Against the favored Indianapolis Colts, the [...]
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