MT’s Tester begins quest to walk away from Obama’s policies
By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org
HELENA — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is working to distance himself from his party’s top elected official, telling the Missoulian newspaper that President Barack Obama has lost his way on jobs and the economy.
The newspaper doesn’t provide direct quotes, but in the May 18 story reporter Rob Chaney writes, ”In an interview at the Missoulian on Friday, the first-term senator from [...]
Deli meat is Rehberg’s weapon in latest MT ad
By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org
HELENA — U.S. House Rep. Denny Rehberg is on the attack again, this time using a deli meat as his weapon of choice.
Rehberg, locked in a tight U.S. Senate race with Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, released his second television ad Thursday. The spot mocks a recent Tester commercial in which the incumbent talks of bringing beef from [...]
KS remapping flap is constitutional crisis, elections chief says
By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter
TOPEKA — Kansas is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the state’s chief election officer, said Wednesday.
Candidates must decide by June 11 whether to run, or not to run. But they don’t yet know who their opponents might be, or which doors to knock on.
Voters who [...]
Feds: Iowa schools not using grant money for reforms
By Sheena Dooley | Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES — Leaders of the Iowa Department of Education failed to fulfill promises made in exchange for more than $17.6 million in federal money to improve six of the state’s poorest performing schools, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education.
Read More →Five Missouri agencies on federal non-compliance list
By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog
ST LOUIS — Five government agencies and businesses in Missouri made the latest non-compliers list for failing to report how they used money from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The list, for the fourth quarter of 2011, identified 418 stimulus-fund recipients that failed to submit reports as required. Thirty-four recipients nationwide did not [...]
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