AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: When Rubi Hernandez realised her 14-year-old daughter Iris was missing, she did not wait the mandatory 72 hours before going to the police. In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, mothers of the "disappeared" have learned to move quickly.
Mexico Tops List of Trade Issues Facing White House
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Obama Administration's top trade negotiator said the U.S. was working quickly to resolve a damaging trade spat with Mexico, one of several obstacles to the president's goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years. "We understand the sense of urgency," said U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk after a speech at the National Press Club.
Health care costs open $1.7 billion hole in Texas budget
DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Lawmakers have been thinking ahead to a massive shortfall, topping $10 billion, that's probably coming when they write the next budget in 2011. But state officials told them Monday that they'll have to fix a hole in the current budget, too. Rising health care costs have dug a hole of about $1.7 billion, the officials said.
Texas gained half as many jobs in January as was thought
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM: Texas gained 14,800 jobs in January, not the 30,300 reported Friday, the Texas Workforce Commission said Tuesday, citing technical problems with data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Professional and business services, which have a lot of temporary hiring, showed the biggest difference between the initial and revised numbers, adding 4,200 jobs in January, not 20,900.
NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is playing a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pressed to remove a provision from draft legislation that would have empowered federal authorities to crack down on payday lenders, people involved in the talks said. The industry is politically influential in his home state and a significant contributor to his campaigns, records show. The Senate Banking Committee’s chairman, Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, proposed legislation in November that would give a new consumer protection agency the power to write and enforce rules governing payday lenders, debt collectors and other financial companies that are not part of banks.
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