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Yellen as Fed chair would be tougher on banks
Janet Yellen is in the running to become chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and that has many bankers and Wall Street titans worried.The diminutive vice chairwoman of the U.S. central bank — an academic...
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IMPACT: Treasury to open Comerica deal to new bids after CPI report
The U.S. Treasury has agreed to consider hiring a new vendor when a controversial deal with Comerica bank to issue debit cards to beneficiaries of federal programs expires in 2015.Comerica has an...
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Trade group to FEC: ‘Corporate funds’ financed campaign ads
Ahead of the 2012 election, the Direct Selling Association reported spending more than $50,000 on advertisements touting two of its favorite politicians.And in new disclosures filed Wednesday with the...
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OPINION: putting big health insurers in their place
Aetna made the wrong kind of headlines in California a few days back. The health insurance giant said it plans to stop selling individual coverage in the state and would not renew the individual...
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Medicare fraud outrunning enforcement efforts
Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse — even though cracking down on government waste...
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State campaign contribution limits on the rise
State governments from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard are attempting to blunt the influence of free-spending super PACs and nonprofits by allowing people to contribute more money to...
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New protections coming for disgruntled intelligence workers
The Obama administration is moving toward final implementation of new job protections for disgruntled intelligence employees who keep their complaints about wrongdoing within government channels.Some...
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Evidence-based treatment works for Georgia’s troubled youth, but dollars...
Like a lot of young people caught up in our nation’s juvenile justice systems, Termaine D. and Elijah C. (not their real names) suffer with serious mental health problems. And like a lot of...
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Treatment for troubled teens
Over the past three decades, adolescent development scholars, criminologists and mental health practitioners have achieved a breakthrough – or rather two breakthroughs. They have developed two...
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GOP leadership PACs boost American Future Fund
Freshmen Sen. Kelly Ayotte found herself under serious political fire.The New Hampshire Republican’s vote in April against enhancing firearm background checks prompted withering ads from a gun control...
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Center gets $1.5M investment into ICIJ
I’m delighted to announce a major new investment in international investigative journalism from an Australian benefactor. Internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist Graeme Wood from...
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Democrats use Kochs to scare up campaign cash after Center report
“Obscene amounts of cash.”“Off to their fastest start ever.”“Spending more than ever before to defend Boehner's Tea Party House.”These are among the politically charged phrases Democratic party...
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Only a few states enact evidence-based care for troubled youth
In a pair of feature stories published this week, JJIE described two modes of intensive at-home treatment that show great promise to improve outcomes for emotionally disturbed youth in the delinquency...
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League of nations lobbying immigration bill
Mexico and other Latin American nations may be the central players in the roiling, months-long congressional debate over how to legislate immigration reform.But a little-known cast of organizations...
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Mystery money in Missouri election not local
What’s the secret a top-spending super PAC kept from Missouri voters before a special congressional election last month?None of its bankrollers are from the Show-Me State.New federal documents show the...
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OPINION: delay in employer mandate shouldn't obscure Obamacare's benefits
The Obama administration’s decision to postpone for a year the requirement that large employers offer health insurance to their workers has been characterized by pundits on the left as a capitulation...
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Tampa and Miami in cold war over Cuban trade
Quietly at first, and now quite publicly, the city of Tampa has courted Cuba in hopes of becoming its future trading partner. Business owners in Tampa talk of how they’ll capitalize when the island...
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Potential benefits of Cuban trade
Florida businesses have been planning, largely in secret, for the lifting of the U.S. embargo for decades. Among the potential opportunities:A Boon to PortsCuba lacks warehouses that could accommodate...
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IMPACT: LePage, lawmakers push for a passing grade in Maine
AUGUSTA -- Maine’s "F" grade from the State Integrity Investigation has led to a number of reforms in the state's ethics rules this year, including a bipartisan transparency bill proposed by Gov. Paul...
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Campaign finance heavyweights in bitter battle
Conservative campaign finance attorney Jim Bopp today lambasted watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for filing a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service that accuses...
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