Edwardsville News

Following recent filings with the Cleburne County Probate Office, the county now has another "improvement district" - actually 16.

By Steve Swafford Rural Alabama's roadways, bridges and culverts are failing. While the state has not felt the sting of the faltering national economy as severely as other parts of the nation, attempts to maintain its aging transportation network area constant ache for county commissions across the state.

It seems as though everybody in Alabama is after a chunk of the Presidents $787 billion stimulus bonanza, however Gov.

Well, it looks like it's official. Despite our considerable efforts , Mother Jones is getting no federal bailout funds.

If you are going to dream you might as well dream big and if billions in taxpayer's money can be thrown to the economic giants on Wall Street and to the nation's three major auto manufacturers then why not ...

Some folks say President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus proposal of $800 billion is too big.

So, by now you've heard that the tiny Alabama town that put in a $374 million bid for stimulus money to build a scenic railroad, renewable energy museum, and, um, golf cart recharging stations withdrew its ...

The latest beggar for a bailout is the town of Edwardsville, Alabama . They want $375 million from the upcoming stimulus package for important projects like a museum and a vineyard.

Towns in America are flooding the Government with requests for projects to be included in the economic stimulus package being assembled by President-Elect Obama and Congress.

Ever see one of those nature documentaries where a pack of sharks lays into a dead whale's corpse? They rip off big chunks of flesh and gobble it down, gorging on the poor critter's remains.

At first glance, the town of Edwardsville, Ala., with a population of 194 people, might raise a few eyebrows with its bid to receive $375 million from the economic stimulus package being assembled by Barack ...

The tiny town of Edwardsville, Ala., has withdrawn its $375 million of projects from consideration for funding in the stimulus following U.S. News' s coverage of its request.

For the last year, I've written of the inevitable lard-up phenomenon inextricably linked to the stimulus-palooza pushes in Congress.

While many ordinary Americans wondered last week what Santa Claus was going to leave for them under the Christmas tree, many American mayors were wondering how much money President-elect Barack Obama and a ...