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The man on the street and in the taxi remains optimistic that a new era in politics is possible. But the economy seems to be slipping further away toward a 2010 recovery. And signs in Washington are that independent politically neutral thinking is fast vanishing …

The President came to the halls of Congress to save the economy with $800 billion dollar request. Alabama delegation remains skeptical. As snow blankets the city the Senate also debates whether to delay the Feb 17 DTV transition. WJAL ABC Washington tv joins the ranks of media layoffs. Bloomberg is reporting on the mortgage industry …

 A chance of flurries tonight in beautiful Washington DC as the plane flies in over the Pentagon, the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. CA.TV is here for the first 100 days of the Obama era. What is happening to the economy with 2 million unemployed Americans. Stay …

 The Press Register reports today that David Bronner RSA CEO will buy the FNB building, pictured here from lumis.com between two other RSA owned Mobile properties. Once the tallest building in Mobile until RSA built Alabama’s tallest skyscraper, the building was the AmSouth …

Paul Volkert started the 2009 Obama era with a bleak picture of a recession with no end in sight and that federal intervention is required to save financial markets from continued erosion or collapse. Protectionism and economic socialism options on the table. However CA.TV advisors say buy blended mutual fund stocks now despite troubled banks …

In a few hours the nominations will be announced from these candidates for best picture, but already the Oscar winner runaway is Slumdog Millionaire. The rest are Milk, Frost Nixon, Benjamin Button, Doubt, Gran Torino, Revolutionary Road, Dark Knight, Wall-e. Slumdog Millionaire is said to be the favorite as a complex upbeat international story worth …

 A bus from coastal Alabama leaves tonight for Washington DC and on board is one citizen prepared to witness, and share, history:

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Text report: “We are singing on the bus ride praying preaching praising storytelling inspiring …

 If you have ever sat behind the wheel of the Pontiac Gran Torino or Gran Prix you have felt the pedal power of this film. Eastwood speaks, directs and tells the story as only an old master can. Without concern to Hollywood, he tells his story …

A month from now analog tv is dead, but 10 million Americans without tv suddenly is cause for concern, so much so that Congress wants to delay the digital Feb 17 transition by 3 months. Obama has introduced a bill seeking the FCC rule change. …

From Robertsdale High School in Baldwin County, a school built literally in a soy bean field, to the head of the world famous Macintosh computer pioneering empire, as Steve Jobes steps down for a medical leave of absence. Tim Cook takes over.

Captain “Sulley” spoke only these words as the jet made a wheels up water landing in the icey Hudson River. After hitting birds in air in both jet engines, the plane was descending over New York City. One passenger said “the thumps” were followed by “a burning smell, not of jet fuel or electric”, perhaps …