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• U.S. Lags In Providing College Access, Study Finds

  Other countries are outpacing the United States in providing access to college, eroding an educational advantage the nation has enjoyed for decades, according to a study released today by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, Maryland, In, U.S., Virginia, California, College, University of Virginia, Study, Canada, University System of Maryland, Finds, Lags, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Providing, Patrick Callan, William E. Kirwan, Joni Finney, Yvonne Hubbard, Access,

• Lawmakers Want Outside Applicants in Hunt for Job Helping U.S. Voters Overseas

  A bipartisan group of legislators and advocates for the military and Americans overseas are urging Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to expand the search for a new director for the troubled Pentagon office that helps those citizens vote by absentee ballot. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: In, U.S., for, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Texas, California, David Vitter, U.S. Department of Defense, Carolyn Maloney, Outside, Want, Robert Gates, John Cornyn, Job, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Lawmakers, Overseas, Helping, Voters, Hunt, Applicants, Overseas Vote Foundation, Les A. Melnyk, Defense Business Board, Henry Dreifus, Mike Honda, Pauline K. Brunelli

• EPA Curbs Medical Incinerator Pollution

  The Environmental Protection Agency moved yesterday to curb pollution released by medical waste incinerators, ending an 11-year battle over how to best regulate the emissions. Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Baltimore, California, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pollution, Medical, EPA, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Incinerator, Dale Kemery, Jim Pew, Curbs

• Marriott Executive to Stake Out His Own Place in Hotel World

  After 16 years at Marriott International, Norman Jenkins is walking away from what appears to be a secure corporate job and stepping out on his own at a time of high economic turbulence. Posted Nov 30 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, to, Baltimore, Bethesda, In, California, Own, World, Out, His, Marriott International Inc., Hotel, Stake, Marriott, Executive, Hilton Hotels Corporation, RLJ Development LLC, Place, The RLJ Companies, Robert L. Johnson, Marriott Jr., Washington Convention Center Authority, Ken Fearn, Norman Jenkins, Thomas J. Jr.

• Confusion Surrounds Legal Status of Online Bets and Firms That Handle Them

  By many measures, Neteller PLC was a huge success. Founded in 1999, the financial services company signed up millions of customers and saw its market value soar to almost $2 billion. Posted Nov 30 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, New York, United States, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., United Kingdom, The White House, California, of, and, American Gaming Association, Bets, That, Caribbean, U.S. Department of Justice, The Wall Street Journal, CBS Corporation, Dallas, Missouri, Barney Frank, American Bankers Association, Canada, Firms, Kentucky, Online, Costa Rica, U.S. Virgin Islands, Philippines, Confusion, Jon Kyl, National Football League, Jack Abramoff, London Stock Exchange plc, Bill Frist, Las Vegas Strip, Them, World Trade Organization, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Robert F. Kennedy, Handle, Shelley Berkley, Status, Malibu, Antigua and Barbuda, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Michael J. Garcia, Robert T. Wood, Robert J. Williams, Surrounds, Legal, Steve Beshear, BETonSPORTS plc, Stephen Lawrence, Jennifer Brislin, Joseph M. Kelly, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Jay Cohen, William Wichterman, Malta, National Research Council, Eugene Martin Christiansen, David G. Schwartz, Poker Players Alliance, Congressional Gaming Caucus, Louise L. Roseman, Bob Goodlatte, Mary Jo White, NETeller plc, David Carruthers, Center for Gaming Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, Catherine Hanaway, Wayne A. Abernathy, John Lefebvre, John Pappas, Sporting News

• Faith-Based Coalitions Pushing for Treasury to Halt Some Foreclosures

  A national coalition of faith-based organizations has launched an effort to push the federal government for a more streamlined approach to handling troubled mortgages, with the aim of keeping more owners in their homes. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, Prince George's County, for, California, Barack Obama, Some, Kansas, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Richmond, Oakland, Sheila Bair, Treasury, Foreclosures, Halt, Pushing, Melody Barnes, Obama's Treasury Department, PICO, Lucy Kolin, Marvin Webb, Mary Rabon, Donna Hurley, Gordon Whitman, Coalitions, Faith-Based

• Treasury Urged to Provide No Bailout Benefit to Private Student Lenders

  Student advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to prevent a new $200 billion consumer-lending program from benefiting private student lenders, which they say are largely unregulated and prey on students with risky, high-interest loans. Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, California, U.S. Department of the Treasury, No, Bailout, Barack Obama, Consumers Union of U.S. Inc., National Consumer Law Center, Reston, Benefit, Treasury, FinAid Page LLC, Sallie Mae Inc., Mark Kantrowitz, George Miller, Lenders, Private, Student, Samara Yudof, United States Student Association, John Dean, Urged, Consumer Bankers Association, Christine Lindstrom, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Provide, American Council on Education, Michele A. Davis, Michelle Smith, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, Kevin Bruns, Tom Joyce

• Safety and Effectiveness of Using CyberKnife on Prostate Cancer Patients Debated

  When Georgetown University Hospital bought a new high-tech system in 2001 to treat patients with radiation, doctors at first used the computerized, robotic device only for brain and spinal tumors that would be difficult if not impossible to fight any other way. Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, on, Seattle, Florida, California, of, Medicare, and, Winchester, Georgetown, Sunnyvale, Safety, Sterling (Virginia), National Cancer Institute, Cancer, Georgetown University Hospital Inc., Patients, Using, Debated, Effectiveness, Kevin A. Camphausen, Paul E. Wallner, Omar Dawood, Diane C. Robertson, CyberKnife Center, Accuray Inc., Prostate, Anthony L. Zietman, Timothy Jamieson, American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Health Policy Council, Robert Blythe, CyberKnife, Sean P. Collins, Louis Potters, ECRI Institute, Rob Meier, Virginia Hospital Center, Swedish Cancer Institute

• EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark

  Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental... Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Pennsylvania, California, Will, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen L. Johnson, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Be, Arizona, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jon Corzine, Hastings College of the Law, Dept., Oregon, Chiefs, Mike Thompson, Barbara Boxer, Center for American Progress, Jonathan Shradar, U.S. Department of the Interior, Busy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Madonna Lebling, Sierra Club, Pace University, Frank O'Donnell, Mark, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife, Clean Air Watch, Dirk Kempthorne, Bush's, California Air Resources Board, Kathleen McGinty, Lisa Renstrom, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance, Ian Bowles, Robert Sussman, Reno (Nevada), EPA,, Jay Inslee, Raul Grijalva, Richard Moe, Brian Schweitzer, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Interior, Lisa Jackson, Mary Nichols, John Kitzhaber, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, John Leshy, Erasing, David Hayes

• Thieves Stole Identities to Tap Home Equity

  Federal authorities this week announced a series of arrests and convictions in connection with a global identity theft ring that stole millions of dollars by hijacking home-equity lines of credit issued to thousands of consumers. Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: New York, United States, to, Miami, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Dallas, China, South Korea, Asia, Vietnam, Tokyo, Japan, Verizon Communications Inc., Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Canada, Tap, Newark, Queens County, Equity, U.S. District Court, Thieves, Springfield (Illinois), U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Precious Matthews, Daniel Yummi, Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association, Identities, Brandy Anderson, Hakeem Olokodana, Derrick Polk, Oladeji Craig, Christopher Christie, Eric Rabe, Identity Theft Assistance Center, Marc Leibman, Yomi Jagunna, Abayomi Lawal, Stole

• Bulk of Md.-Based Mattress Discounters Sold to RoomStore, Investor

  Richmond-based furniture firm RoomStore and another investor have agreed to buy the bulk of Mattress Discounters for about $4.5 million, dramatically less than its $80 million price tag in a deal that fell apart last year. Posted Nov 25 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, California, of, Upper Marlboro, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Houston, Richmond, Manassas, Sealy Corporation, Ashburn (Virginia), Burtonsville, District Heights, Clarksburg, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, Hyattsville, Mechanicsville, Discounters, Chester, Investor, Sold, Westminster, Mattress Discounters Corporation, Mattress, RoomStore,, Md.-Based, David Perry, Bulk, Mattress Discounters Group LLC, Pikesville, Accokeek, Brian D. Bertonneau, La Plata, Steve Newton, Mattress Firm Inc.

• Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer

  When Countrywide Financial felt pressured by federal agencies charged with overseeing it, executives at the giant mortgage lender simply switched regulators in the spring of 2007. Posted Nov 22 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, Seattle, California, Over, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Brooklyn, Barack Obama, Chicago, Princeton University, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Federal Financial Analytics Inc., Washington Mutual Inc., Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Banking, Office of Thrift Supervision, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Calabasas, Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial Corporation, John Dugan, Regulator, John Taylor, Pasadena, IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Jim Leach, Charles Keating, Robert Thomason, Dorothea Larkin, Played, Tournament of Roses Association, Lincoln Savings and Loan, Ruthann Melbourne, Ellen Seidman, Simeon Ferguson, James Gilleran, Superior Bank, Dale George, Scott M. Polakoff, John J. LaFalce, Downey Savings and Loan Association, Advocate, Darryl W. Dochow, Enforcer, John Reich

• FDIC Seizes Three Banks, Expanding Its Mortgage Modification Program

  Federal regulators seized three banks last night, including Downey Savings and Loan Association, a large California mortgage lender, expanding what is by far the most expensive crop of bank failures in modern American history and indicating that the pace of failures is increasing. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, California, Its, Three, Washington Mutual Inc., Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair, FDIC, Office of Thrift Supervision, Mortgage, Minnesota, U.S. Bancorp, IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Banks,, Seizes, Program, Downey Savings and Loan Association, Community Bank of Loganville, Bank of Essex, Tappahannock, Expanding, PFF Bancorp Inc., Modification

• Crisis Hits Values of Commercial Mortgages

  NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- Another levee in the financial markets is crumbling. Posted Nov 20 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Crisis, Washington, DC, New York, Maryland, Virginia, California, of, Hits, Columbia (Maryland), U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Carolina, Arizona, Chicago, West Virginia, Georgetown, Atlanta,