President Obama signed an extension to the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 on Tuesday, extending the COBRA subsidy program enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e., the Stimulus) and extending unemployment benefits through April 5, 2010.

NC Gov. Beverly Perdue announced Friday that nearly $46 million will be awarded to 36 communities in 30 North Carolina counties for wastewater and stormwater projects from the first-round distribution of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act monies by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 last week. Generally known as the economic stimulus law, it creates new COBRA rules intended to help those who were involuntarily terminated from employment (i.e., fired or laid off) between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009 and lost their group medical plan coverage. [...]