From Municipalist As more states investigate use of YouTube as a multimedia portal (see California and Virginia), the state of... View Article
Continue readingFavor Factory 2008
Thanks to faithful reader Ann Minks for bringing my attention to Seattle Times’ Favor Factory. The Favor Factory offers a... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Your Own Personal Cell Phone Towers
Senators get their own cell phone towers installed, don’t pay for it. Rep. Tim Mahoney continues to sink in yet... View Article
Continue readingAIG Still Lobbying for Lax Regulations
A month ago, at the advent of the global economic crisis, the federal government loaned the nation’s largest insurer, AIG,... View Article
Continue readingWTF?
Yesterday President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 which includes a provision to establish a... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: The Banks Bought Congress
Budgeting political risk helped Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and financial services companies avoid the kind of scrutiny they needed from... View Article
Continue readingOpen House Project Retrospective
(Cross posted from OHP) We’ve come a long way since I wrote the following in the project’s first press release:... View Article
Continue readingPublic’s Right to Know v. Stevens
The federal court case against U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska continues in Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutors accuse the long-servce... View Article
Continue readingNorth Carolina Businessman Pays for Campaign Ads
In late July this year, two North Carolina state legislators and a pharmaceutical industry executive set up a political non-profit to run ads focusing on the present financial crisis ahead of the November election. The nonprofit has spent more than $600,000 to produce the ads, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Real Time has been following various ads using our new "Follow the 527s" widget, available on the right side of the site.
The nonprofit, RightChange.com, Inc., was set up by a pair Republican lawmakers, state Sen. Fletcher Hartsell ...
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Scandal Tarred Florida Seat
Sometimes congressional seats come fixed with a superstitious quality; a curse, perhaps. North Carolina’s Class 3 Senate seat is famous... View Article
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