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Paying student athlete debate simmersSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:57AMEarlier this summer, Steve Spurrier laid out a plan for providing more money to college athletes, at

Nuclea, Clark gain from partnershipThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:04AMWORCESTER - In a painted concrete-block room at Clark University that used to hold an elevator shaft, cool air flows around equipment newly purchased by Nuclea Biotechnologies Inc. and tended by Nuclea workers.

East newsmaker you should know: Perseverance paid off for Westmoreland plannerThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:01AMAfter 39 years as Westmoreland County's top economic development planner, Larry J. Larese will hang up his hat tomorrow. That's officially -- he still has a few ongoing projects on which he will consult, just to make sure they are completed, Mr. Larese said.

Wash. state women among Social Security's 'walking dead'Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 2:44PMThousands of people who are still alive have been listed on the U.S. Social Security Administration's "Death Master File." Some of the "walking dead" have spent years trying to fix the problem, and have lost pensions or been turned down for loans.

Kitsap Co. women among Social Security's 'dead'Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 2:02PMJoyce Simpson, 87, was "scared to death" when her Social Security and pension checks stopped showing up in the mail.

Matt Yglesias, Baumol's Cost Disease and the Skyrocketing Cost of CollegeSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 12:48PMMatt Yglesias picks up on the inflation of the cost of summer camp and in doing so manages to not qu

Social Security's records mistakes create 'walking dead'Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 5:23PMNearly two dozen in Kitsap and Mason counties have been mistakenly labeled as dead, creating everything from minor inconveniences to major havoc in their lives.

Half of Americans Getting Government Aid Swear They've Never Used Government ProgramsSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 8:09AMWe see it pop up in the news all the time: The people who most hate on the idea of government assistance are sometimes the ones getting it. Just last week, there were reports that Michele Bachmann's husband gets farm subsidies and reportedly received $137,000 in Medicaid money. A new paper from Cornell University puts this dynamic in chart form, and the results are kind of shocking: Half of ...

Is the cost of higher education becoming prohibitive?Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:48AMFROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Here's something that will scare you out of a vacation if you've got kids in high school or junior high school: During the past 20 years, tuition and fees at public universities have jumped nearly 130%, and they're going up some more - again. With states facing budget crunches like never [...]