Check Florida's congressional earmarks at www.theledger.com/earmarks . You can search by county or by member of Congress. Consider the small North Carolina company that landed an $800,000 earmark last year at the behest of a Connecticut congresswoman ...

Microsoft, which spent $6 billion on aQuantive and was chasing Yahoo for its ads before it came to a dead stop, has been supporting - as in helping write - legislation in New York and Connecticut that would regulate the data that companies like Yahoo and Google collect for targeted advertising. The New York bill, which Google, Yahoo, AOL and Facebook oppose, would let consumers opt-out of ...

President Bush mixed big-money politics and celebrity culture with riffs on foreign policy, voluntarism and African malaria Friday in two stops in Connecticut. In Hartford, he mingled with an " American Idol " contestant, two professional basketball ...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the investment management organization that invests Canada’s national pension fund assets, will invest US$200 million in Noble Environmental Power, a Connecticut-based wind energy development ...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is making a big investment in renewable energy, putting $200-million (U.S.) into Connecticut-based wind power company Noble

Rhode Island residents last year for the first time spent more money at gambling facilities in their home state than they did in Connecticut.

Bob Welch teaches a seminar on church administration at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The globe-trotting priest from Connecticut drove a Jaguar, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman and bought jewelry from Cartier, all of it with money stolen from his church's coffers. By the time the parish fin ...