September 7, 2008
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Meeting in Charleston this week, about three-dozen delegates representing 22 states continued the arduous and often tedious task of simplifying and standardizing the states' sales tax codes in hopes of creating a nationwide system to collect taxes from Internet retailers.
Filed under Alabama News by By Phil Kabler
A U.S. trust fund that finances highway construction needs $8 billion from Congress by the end of next week to cover a shortfall as a drop in driving shrinks fuel-tax receipts, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said.
Filed under Alabama News by By John Hughes
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sweeping demographic changes in the American electorate are undercutting old assumptions about swing voters and battleground states and making the 60-day general-election campaign that starts this morning even less predictable than usual.
Filed under Alabama News by By Susan Page
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation: broadcast television.
Filed under Alabama News by By The Associated Press
A foundation set up to help financially pinched Alabama National Guard members has given out nearly $130,000 since it started operating four years ago, and it probably will give out more this year than ever before.
Filed under Alabama News by By Tom Gordon
