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Spending by outside groups topped $1 billion by Election Day
Super PACs and other outside groups made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision spent more than $1 billion on advertising in federal races through Election Day, with 10...
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Outside spending makes big difference in state-level races
The explosion of outside spending unleashed at the federal level by the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling also rocked state races.Contests for the top executive and judicial spots, in states...
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Baby steps toward ethics reform in South Carolina
Legislators in South Carolina have taken initial steps toward what could be the first major overhaul of the state’s ethics rules in twenty years. As the Free Times reported this morning, government...
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Californian spends $44 million, loses ballot initiative fight
Marijuana legalization, gay marriage and a state version of the DREAM Act are this year’s ballot initiative winners. But those who gave the largest sums to state referenda poured tens of millions of...
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Rove-affiliated groups spend $175 million, lose 21 of 30 races
If Karl Rove was an NFL coach and not a political strategist, he would probably be looking for a new job about now.Organizations co-founded by the GOP’s most effective fundraiser spent more than $175...
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Super PACs, nonprofits favored Romney over Obama
Super PACs and nonprofits unleashed by the Citizens United Supreme Court decision have spent more than $840 million on the 2012 election, with the overwhelming majority favoring Republicans,...
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OPINION: translating insurance-speak
Health insurers invested a lot of what you paid them in premiums in an effort to get more of their friends elected to Congress. As the Center for Public Integrity reported last month, the political...
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Major fight looms over defense spending
President Obama and Congress now have just over seven weeks to reach an agreement on the federal budget that would avert a round of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts in defense and social programs...
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GOP immigration hardliner told constituent to take family to Mexico
Not every Congressional Republican is joining the GOP rush to mend fences with Latino voters by embracing the pursuit of comprehensive immigration reform.Rep. Steve King of Iowa, for example — one...
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Blistering inspector general report says feds are failing to fight Medicaid...
Like a growing number of disabled Americans on Medicaid, Keith Foreman, a 57-year-old in Metropolis, Ill., qualified for a personal caregiver to help him with daily activities like dressing, shaving,...
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Medical journal issues warning about human tissue trade
In its latest issue, the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet warns about the dangers of “profiteering” in the $1 billion international trade on human tissue and the lack of sufficient...
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Hospitals request government help in curbing possible billing abuses
The nation’s largest hospital group has asked federal officials to create new Medicare pay scales for emergency rooms and outpatient clinics and determine if electronic health records are prompting...
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More on Fred Humphries, FBI friend of Jill Kelley
Fred Humphries does not fit the stereotype of an FBI agent as cool and unemotional. In person, the man who helped initiate the investigation of CIA Director David Petraeus comes across as a passionate...
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New report: Minors in 'solitary' hallucinate, harm themselves
A new report on solitary confinement of minors includes harrowing descriptions of the psychological and physical impact ‘solitary’ has on young people, as well as surprising revelations about why some...
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Study spotlights high breast cancer risk for plastics workers
WINDSOR, Ontario — For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city’s plastic automotive parts factories: Pungent fumes and dust...
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OPINION: 'Disrupt' the new buzzword of Obamacare opponents
Disruption.Get ready to hear that word many times in the coming weeks, especially if you hang out inside the Washington beltway.“Disruption” will be the new buzzword in an upcoming advertising campaign...
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Gridlocked election commission awaits action by Obama
The nation’s enforcer of election laws was largely paralyzed during the 2012 election, despite a Supreme Court ruling that left several key money-in-politics issues open to interpretation.With five of...
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Redistricting credited for GOP success in Wisconsin congressional races
In the aftermath of the Nov. 6 elections, words like “fickle” and “schizophrenic” are being bandied about to describe the Wisconsin electorate.How else can anyone explain a group of voters who...
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Union demands protection for workers, after breast cancer linked to auto...
WINDSOR, Ontario — When some women walk onto a factory floor, punch their time card at a food processing facility, or start their shift at the foundry, they are literally dying to go to work, union...
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Reporter Jim Morris and Canadian researchers Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith...
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