Stephen Singer AP Business Writer Hartford, CT — Power companies in New England have a nearly half-billion-dollar strategy to upgrade the region’s electric grid. The plan will make way for appliances that can shut down to reduce electric bills, improve ...

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Washington (AP) — Seventy-six American Indian tribes across the country will share $1 billion in economic stimulus money to help create jobs and revitalize Indian communities. The money will allow tribes from California to Florida to issue low-interest bonds for ...

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By Burl Gilyard Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Minneapolis and St. Paul have landed a combined $37.5 million in federal stimulus money aimed at easing the ongoing foreclosure crisis. Minneapolis received $19.46 million. The city was the lead applicant with ...

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Monika Mathur and Richard Lardner AP Writers Washington — Georgia’s Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, voted against the $787 billion economic stimulus package, blasting the bill as a bloated government giveaway. But their disdain didn’t stop them from ...

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Phillip Rawls AP Writer Montgomery, AL — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble ...

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