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Pentagon spending for non-military programs assailed
What do scientific experiments involving babies and robots have to do with excessively costly elementary schools and low-priced grocery stores for the elderly?The answer is, these endeavors are all...
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IMPACT: Florida Senate votes for stronger ethics rules
Florida’s Senate approved a new set of ethics rules today that will strengthen the body’s conflict of interest guidelines. The vote marked the first action to emerge from a vocal push for ethics reform...
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Generals no longer retire to Vermont — they lobby for contractors in Washington
“What can you do with a general, when he stops being a general?” crooned Bing Crosby in the 1954 movie “White Christmas.” “Who’s got a job for a general when he stops being a general?”Alas, the answer,...
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At Wal-Mart and elsewhere, jobs provide few hours, little stability
Shoppers heading to Wal-Mart on Black Friday in search of deals will likely be met by protesting workers. The protestors, who are organized by the union-supported group OUR Walmart, are asking the...
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Secrecy for Sale: Front men disguise the offshore game's real players
The existence of a global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed today.The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint...
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OPINION: Giving thanks for regulation of insurance industry greed
Although it’s a few days past Thanksgiving, I’m still feeling grateful, even to much maligned federal employees. Last week bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services did us a big favor...
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Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California
Marijuana — it’s one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and 2011, according to provocative new research.The...
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Secrecy for sale: Offshore alchemy hides real estate speculators buying up...
Selective trusts and companies born in the British Virgin Islands have helped anonymous buyers snap up luxury properties in London and other UK locales.Today we are setting out to demolish the wall of...
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Secrecy for sale: Post-Soviet billionaires invade UK, via British Virgin Islands
Britain’s friendly regime of offshore secrecy has tempted an extraordinary array of post-Soviet billionaires to descend on London, sometimes to the sound of gunfire.These billionaires justify their use...
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Secrecy for sale: Offshore subsidiaries sell to militaries, intelligence...
A number of so-called nominee directors of companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have connections to military or intelligence activities, an investigation has revealed.In the past,...
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Senator mistakenly says marriage quickly legalizes young immigrants
While unveiling an alternative to the DREAM ACT — but with no route to citizenship — Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona suggested that illegal immigrants brought here as children can easily get on a...
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Medicare paid $3.6 billion for electronic health records but didn't verify...
In early 2009, federal officials announced they would pay billions of dollars to hospitals and doctors who agreed to buy electronic medical records and use them to improve the quality of health...
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Drug lobby gave $750,000 to pro-Hatch nonprofit in Utah's U.S. Senate race
When six-term GOP incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah faced the prospect of a mutiny from conservative activists, his allies within the pharmaceutical industry stepped in to help defend him.New...
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EPA slaps BP but punishes the Pentagon
The Environmental Protection Agency imposed a new penalty for wrongdoing against the BP oil company on Nov. 28, but it may fall heavily on the Defense Department, an unflaggingly loyal client that has...
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Warehouse worker lawsuit targets Walmart
MIRA LOMA, Calif. – Walmart will be named a defendant today in an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a warehouse complex in this Los Angeles...
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Drug lobby donation went to pro-Democratic nonprofit
A nonprofit group in Montana that supported a conservative state Supreme Court candidate was not the recipient of a $500,000 donation from the nation’s top drug lobby as suggested earlier this week and...
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OPINION: the behind-the-scenes battle that could subvert Obamacare
I’ve written before about the tight relationships between health insurance companies and organizations that claim to represent the interests of small employers, specifically the U.S. Chamber of...
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Nukes likely to decline in Obama’s second term
The Pentagon’s budget is almost assuredly going down in coming years, under heavy pressure from those who wish to trim the federal deficit and see the agency – whose budget increased by two-thirds over...
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BP engulfed in lawsuit over 40-day Texas flare
By now images of the April 2010 Gulf oil spill are indelible: The rig engulfed in smoke, oil gushing into the ocean, beaches stained on the coast. These images defined the largest environmental...
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Education official who focused on school discipline steps down
Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali has quietly stepped down following an active four-year tenure devoted to changing attitudes about school discipline and improving...
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