When the U.S. Department of Justice issued a relatively brief memorandum recently, it sent state officials, industry leaders and pundits scrambling to make sense of what could be a major step toward legal Internet gambling.
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- A study recently released by the Delaware Tourism Department showed the tourism industry is a principal economic driver in the state. According to the 2010 study, conducted by D.K. Shifflet & Associates and Vantage Strategy, tourism has grown to a $2.1 billion industry that employs 39,000 people and attracts more than 7 million visitors to Delaware each year.
Without a big infusion of cash, Christine O'Donnell's fledgling political organization could soon go broke. O'Donnell has burned through most of the $424,000 in campaign donations remaining from the record-setting $7.4 million she raised in her failed 2010 U.S. Senate campaign.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood hires lots of outside lawyers. They make a great deal of money for the state, and for themselves. Not everyone is happy with that situation.
