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Daily Disclosure: Crossroads GPS charges into congressional race
Crossroads GPS, a conservative nonprofit outside spending group, began a $2.3 million ad campaign Wednesday, including the Crossroads network’s first reported foray into congressional races and ads in...
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IMPACT: New ethics effort in Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine — Two of the state’s top political leaders are vowing a bipartisan effort to make government ethics, accountability and transparency key issues in the upcoming legislative...
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Hospitals grab at least $1 billion in extra fees for emergency room visits
Judging by their bills, it would appear that elderly patients treated in the emergency room at Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas, are among the sickest in the country — far sicker than patients...
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Daily Disclosure: Ad hits Obama on child soldiers
Conservative nonprofit Let Freedom Ring attempts to link President Barack Obama to child soldiers in a new ad focusing on the United States’ military aid to certain countries in Africa and the Middle...
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Perps or pupils? Safety policy creates friction in New York City schools
When Minerva Dickson first saw her high school she thought it looked like a prison. After her first week, she says, she realized how right her initial impressions were.Every day when she arrived at...
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F-35 deputy sees challenges ahead
A little over five weeks ago, the Pentagon’s F-35 program got a new deputy manager, and a few days ago, he gave a candid “outsider’s” appraisal of the most costly weapons program in history — one that...
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Grassley says providers who overbill Medicare are draining its finances
Medical professionals who cheat Medicare by billing for more complex and costly services than they deliver threaten to drain the elderly health-care program’s already shaky finances, Sen. Charles...
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Daily Disclosure: Democratic super PACs gain ground
Democratic super PACs have begun to make up ground in the political arms race, raising substantially more in August than they did during the previous month, new filings with the Federal Election...
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National unions and Chamber of Commerce face off in Michigan
After two bruising years for organized labor in the Midwest, the movement has managed to land two pro-union measures on the November ballot in Michigan.Michigan locals and their national leaders now...
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OPINION: Center series demonstrates dangers of 'captured' regulators
The months-long Center for Public Integrity investigation into the Medicare program has uncovered a textbook example of the expensive consequences of what’s known as “regulatory capture.” Doctors and...
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Daily Disclosure: Realtors spend big on California race
The National Association of Realtors, a major outside spender in the election, reported $500,000 in television ads supporting Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., in his quest to be elected in California’s...
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IMPACT: Cabinet officials signal crackdown on Medicare billing abuse
Top federal officials are stepping up scrutiny for doctors and hospitals that may be cheating Medicare by using electronic health records to improperly bill the health plan for more complex and...
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EPA's 'Brownfields' program coming up short
In Oak Creek, Wis., a fence slashed with holes surrounds a barren 300-acre complex of buckling former factories where the soil and groundwater are polluted with arsenic and other chemicals.Asbestos...
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Daily Disclosure: North Dakota's Berg absorbs one-two ad punch
Republican Rep. Rick Berg, of North Dakota, once the favorite to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, has found himself in a tight race, and spending by outside groups is flowing.Berg faces...
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Daily Disclosure: Koch-backed nonprofit ‘educates’ voters about Obama
Americans for Prosperity, a conservative nonprofit funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, launched a new issue advocacy campaign criticizing President Barack Obama Monday.The organization reported...
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East China Sea training merely an 'exercise' says Pentagon
Japan, Taiwan, and China have been contesting ownership of five deserted islets and three rocks in the East China Sea since oil reserves were detected nearby more than forty years ago. But new...
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Giving you the truth
The 2012 presidential contest will be the most expensive - and most secretive - election of the modern era. Thanks to federal court decisions, corporations, billionaires and labor unions can spend as...
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Daily Disclosure: Arizona congressman targeted by veterans’ group
A new ad from a veterans’ outside spending group and a major Democratic super PAC accuses Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of failing to support members of the armed services.“Congressman Flake...
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Documents show Air Force neglected concerns about F-22 pilot safety
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan (AP) — Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit -- before one struggled to breathe in advance of a fatal crash, before two more went on television to say they...
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Daily Disclosure: Non-disclosing nonprofit spends $8.2 million anti-Obama ad
Americans for Job Security, a conservative nonprofit organized as a trade association, reported that its ad “Running” cost $8.2 million, a significant figure considering the group’s total take in its...
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