- Mar 10, 2010 Cautious Obama joins climate fray (The Hill) Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Graham that was postponed. more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Massa has media groping for answers (Washington Post) Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast," AP writes. On that subject, David Leonhardt thinks "health reform plan is a terribly mixed bag. When liberals say... more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Cost, Intrigue Doomed Northrop Bid (Politico) Richard Shelby, an influential member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and Jeff Sessions, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.In 2006, Northrop also gained an edge when Sen. As late as last week, Northrop was still weighing its decision. more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Roseville solar start-up gets federal boost to build new plants (The Sacramento Bee) That's because Sacramento County officials made the stimulus award. One company, South Korea's Millinet Solar, said last month that it will build a solar panel factory at McClellan Park. The plant will eventually employ 150 workers. Sacramento's fledgling solar industry recently experienced a... more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Graham To Obama: Time To 'step It Up' (Politico) Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — who meet with Obama at 3 p.m. Thursday — have worked on a reform framework. more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Mitchell Schnurman column (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) When Boulder County started its program, more than 1,700 people and 130 contractors attended briefing sessions. TXU Energy and SolarCity recently unveiled a solar leasing plan with no upfront costs and a low monthly payment. That helps ensure that homeowners are making high-value investments.... more...
- Mar 10, 2010 Obama and senators seek climate compromise (Los Angeles Times) By Jim Tankersley President Barack Obama convened a meeting of more than a dozen Democratic and Republican senators this afternoon to discuss energy and climate legislation. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who are piecing together a large-scale energy... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 BRIEF: Audit (The Virginian-Pilot) ...money has not been spent yet," said Chesapeake City Auditor Jay Poole. "We still had 95 percent of the stimulus money to spend. That was the most surprising part (of the audit)." Poole points out that it has been "very difficult get the money out the door immediately" because of federal... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Michelle Obama donates ball gown to Smithsonian (USA Today) Obama's donation has added significance since hers is the first gown worn by a first lady of color. The new gallery will feature a total of 10 inaugural dresses.Wu joined Mrs. He also liked Jackie Kennedy's white dress. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Census hiring blitz of 750,000 to cut jobless rate, offer boost to Obama (The Hill) ...the labor force.If those hired by the Census Bureau are jobless and have been actively looking for work, they will cause the unemployment rate to fall.But if those hired are people who had previously given up looking for jobs, they won’t be counted as reducing the unemployment... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Should taxpayers pay $300 million for casino in Atlantic City? (Asbury Park Press) Before the revision, nine taxes, including one state-level tax, could be included in a TIF grant. Some studies argue that tax incentives draw jobs and investment to a region, while others found very little correlation between TIF grants and economic development. State Sen. Raymond Lesniak,... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Obama adviser pushes health-care reform in Columbus visit (The Columbus Dispatch) Now." Jarrett leads the White House Council on Women and Girls that Obama created a year ago. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky., Merlene Davis column: E-mail shows racism is tenacious (Lexington Herald-Leader) I asked how Jane was doing, he told me she was in bad shape, in a nursing home, has Alzheimer's and no longer recognizes anyone, how sad. Political humor. Later, when the criticism began to fly from several of the recipients and the mayor of Nashville, Baker apologized. But, last I heard,... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Obama back on the campaign trail, this time for health care (USA Today) This time, the goal is not the White House, but a final health care bill. We were sent there to solve the big challenges." As with any campaign, average Americans speak at Obama's rallies to discuss their health care problems. The health care campaign also has its share of political intrigue. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Whip Check Time (Politico) Obama and the Democrats are bold efforts to put people back to work. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.).”SPEAKING OF EMERSON AND TANNER …Retiring Democratic Rep. Tanner contributed $2,000 from his PAC to Republican Rep. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Obama, Insurers Wrestle Over Rates (Politico) But, mostly, the two groups seemed to talk past each other, attendees said.The one bit of intrigue came when Obama dropped in for an orchestrated moment via anecdote. The president read a letter he had received from Natoma Canfield, who saw her premiums increase by 40 percent this year. She asked... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Target Job Creation To Those In Need (Politico) Nor did the stimulus lift up those long held down by discrimination. A jobs bill should include investments in job training and retraining for 21st-century industries like health care, information technology and biotech. Public policies need to advance several seemingly different goals all at... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 W.H. No Outpost Of Chicago Machine (Politico) The city moved on to the Democratic machine. But close as he may be to the Occupant, he has never been of the machine. Maybe some real Chicago pols might get more done. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 First grandma keeps low profile (Chicago Tribune) Robinson also enjoys going to Las Vegas. Shields, 59, has visited his sister at the White House three times, most recently for a large family gathering at Thanksgiving. One is the White House staff. "The staff there is awesome. The kids, Sasha and Malia, they really love and respect her. more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Broadband Internet service narrows the gap between urban and rural areas (The Kansas City Star) Or whether government even needs to. Consider what got Buhler, near Hutchinson, wired. At that cost of more than $4,300 to link up each customer, about four in five homes will have Internet at speeds up to 20 megabits per second. I don't know how anybody in the rural areas can keep up if they... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Eugene Kane column (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) ...who didn't support the mayoral control bill. That seems a bit unfair, considering what Wisconsin was up against. It seems Race to the Top funding was based on past performance, and many school districts in Wisconsin -- particularly Milwaukee -- don't have an impressive record of achievement.... more...
- Mar 9, 2010 Obama adviser pushes health-care reform (The Columbus Dispatch) Now." Jarrett leads the White House Council on Women and Girls that Obama created a year ago. more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Short-staffed agency overseeing high-speed-rail effort draws fire (USA Today) ...got $2.3 billion for a 220-mph route between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Florida, which got $1.3 billion to develop a 168-mph rail corridor between Tampa and Orlando.Most of the rest went to smaller projects to increase speeds on Amtrak routes or plan for future projects in 11 other... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 OPINION: The long-term unemployed (The Sacramento Bee) That means the state has about as many jobs as it did a decade ago, when there were 3.6 million fewer working-age residents. For 23 years, he repaired jackhammers and other construction and demolition equipment. Short on cash, the agency is counting on the help of nonprofits and companies to... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Obama: Greedy health insurers show need for reform (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Louis, in the swing state of Missouri, to continue pressing his case. Pennsylvania is also a swing state, and Montgomery County is home to many independent voters who have been trending Democratic in recent national elections. But the latest polls suggest many independents are skeptical of a... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Rahm Emanuel in the NYT Magazine (Washington Post) After the debacle in Massachusetts that cost Democrats their supermajority in the Senate, Washington has engaged in a favorite exercise, conducting the autopsy before the body is actually dead. Did Obama make a mistake by disregarding his top adviser's counsel? Or was it Emanuel who failed to... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky., Merlene Davis column (Lexington Herald-Leader) Political humor. Later, when the criticism began to fly from several of the recipients and the mayor of Nashville, Baker apologized. But, last I heard, Michelle Obama is not the president. Why is Michelle such a lightning rod for such attacks couched as jokes? Isn't she just as human, just as... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 OPINION (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Obama did win the election, and still we're in a funk. Obama and his new-age, multiracial coalition represent a trend -- or a political aberration. The case for the trend theory is well-established. He didn't see that the Carter election was but an aberration in something important and something... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Matheson quid pro quo rumor runs wild (The Salt Lake Tribune) Matheson's [American Bar Association] rating, based on Mr. Matheson, who attended a White House reception with the president Wednesday night, noted that the president praised his brother when the two chatted but didn't once ask him to back health care. more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Obama honors Alabama football (USA Today) That game also featured something then commonplace, now unthinkable: All white teams. But there he was this afternoon, President Obama praising the University of Alabama for winning its 13th national college football title. Obama did not mention the nation's racial history in his remarks, instead... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Obama Brings Health Pitch To Pa. (Politico) He appealed to Democrats who are undecided by shaming the politics at play, even making a rare reference to President Bill Clinton’s failure to get health care reform. The issue is not politics.”The president was harsh in his assessment of insurance companies. The event was partially standing... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Votes in Congress for week ending March 5, 2010 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ...No --Clay (D-Mo.), Akin (R-Mo.), Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), Emerson (R-Mo.), Shimkus (R-Ill.) Abusive school discipline --Members passed, 262-153, a bill (HR4247) setting federal rules to curb abusive discipline of elementary and secondary students. A yes vote backed a bill to address documented... more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Obama Warns Staff: Ignore Palace Intrigue (Politico) Axelrod gets criticized for being so close to Obama for so long that he sometimes fails to appreciate and anticipate when the president's approach isn't resonating. I probably spend three or four hours a day talking to Rahm. I don’t loathe Washington, but I do loathe the pathology of Washington. more...
- Mar 8, 2010 Obama Takes Reform On The Road (Politico) People respond to that.”Obama travels to suburban Philadelphia Monday and to the St. Only one Democrat, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, has said she would oppose the cleanup bill, because she disagrees with the use of reconciliation. more...
- Mar 8, 2010 The Caucus: Sure-Fire Crowd Pleaser: Reining in Wall Street (New York Times) That explains why Senate Republicans, after throwing up a wall of opposition on health care, continue negotiating with their Democratic counterparts on financial regulation. “The anger is much greater at the financial industry than it is at the health care industry,” said Steve Hildebrand, a... more...
