Recent Votes

• Long-term unemployed face dwindling options 

  ELKHART, Ind. - At the edge of this town, at the end of a long driveway, lives Lawrie Covey, who's at the end of her rope.

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• Similar counties, but stimulus impact miles apart

  RICHLAND, Wash. - If you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard.

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• A welcome uptick in downtown diners

          John Schoen / msnbc.com   John Ravenscroft, manager of Mad Anthony's restaurant in Elkhart, Ind., says business is picking up.

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• Move over, feds, as locals try stimulus too

  ELKHART, Ind. - In hard-hit Elkhart, Ind., there are glimmers of economic hope as some recreational vehicle makers and other companies have begun hiring again after a long downturn.

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• Reinvention, with help from the Rust Belt

  Elkhart community leaders on Wednesday brainstormed ways to pull out of the recession, starting with the premise -- now self-evident -- that the county can no longer expect the RV industry to hold up the community.

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