Topic: Youngstown

On campaign trail, Biden paints Romney as corporate raider

The Vice President was in high-unemployment areas of Ohio, suggesting the GOP candidate doesn't care about workers.

With all this natural gas, who needs oil?

It's home-grown, plentiful, and touted as the best way to wean the US off Mideast oil. But there are limits to how far the US can tilt toward a natural gas economy. 

Super Tuesday: For some Ohio voters, Santorum's populist touch resonates

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have striven to explain how each is distinguished from the other. Surveys taken ahead of Super Tuesday in Ohio show the two candidates are in a dead heat.

Super Tuesday: Mitt Romney woos blue-collar voters in Ohio

Mitt Romney is locked in a tight GOP primary battle with Rick Santorum for Ohio, perhaps the biggest prize on Super Tuesday. On Monday he campaigned in blue-collar Youngstown.

How fracking might have led to an Ohio earthquake

The 4.0 Ohio earthquake this weekend was a reminder that activities related to hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' can cause seismic faults to shift if not carried out carefully. 

Why I rent, despite low mortgage rates

Mortgage rates are in the basement. Real estate is more affordable. But in this dismal job market, Americans need to stay mobile. For now, home is where I lay my head, and it’s a rental.

Job market dismal? Here are the bright spots.

Although it added no net new jobs in August, the economy has some sectors that are growing robustly. Technology, health care, and some regional job markets are doing well.

Retooling the Motor City: Can Detroit save itself?

A retooling plan for Detroit – involving controversial razing, shrinking, and repurposing – is under way as the Motor City tries to save itself.

In Wisconsin's long shadow, unions and tea partyers face off across US

Police have separated union activists and tea party supporters in Atlanta, Denver, Des Moines, and Columbus, as tensions rise over a Wisconsin push to curtail collective bargaining.

Supreme Court: Did it just hint at stance on a health-care law challenge?

The Supreme Court refused to take up a case examining Congress's authority under the commerce clause, a key issue in a legal challenge to Obama's health-care law. Two justices dissented.

In Ohio, Obama says his policies have created jobs. Is that true?

Visiting a manufacturing plant in Youngstown, Ohio, President Obama said the $787 billion Recovery Act helped avert a possible depression. Critics – especially Republicans – aren't so sure.

Not-so-free iced coffee day at Dunkin Donuts

Dunkin Donuts free iced coffee day turns out to be limited in scope this year.

A better way to create jobs

Nurturing start-ups works even better than infrastructure projects.

A Rust Belt city tries to shrink its way to success

Youngstown, Ohio’s groundbreaking plan for revival collides with recession and hard choices about neighborhood survival.

Where can working Americans afford a home?

They are still priced out of the housing market in many cities across the country, a new study concludes.

My favorite cookbook

Readers write in to share their favorite recipe collection.

McCain courts blue-collar Democrats

His lead strategist says if McCain were to get 20 percent of these voters he will win.

Now, Democrats target McCain

The party's 30-second spot highlights US economic woes.

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In 'Breakfast with Buddha,' an average Joe meets a Siberian monk

A road trip to North Dakota proves a gentle forum for spiritual lessons.

Beam me up, Rinpoche

On the road with a Siberian monk and an average Joe.