TX Rep. Kay Granger’s $52 million for Trinity River makes list of Congressional ‘earmarks’ for projects near members’ property

By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Kay Granger’s tireless work in Washington has delivered nearly 52 million dollars to downtown Fort Worth redevelopment. Taxpayers can rest easy knowing she hasput that money in the hands of her son, JD.
Granger, R-Fort Worth, didn’t top the Washington Post’slist of 49 members of Congress who managed [...]

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Six-figure government-produced jobs: Texas’ tech fund at $206K per job, federal stimulus came in at $300K

By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog

AUSTIN– The state’s Emerging Technology Fund has since 2006 invested 169 million taxpayer dollars in companies that have created 820 jobs, an expenditure of $206,097 per job.

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Exclusive: Bruning not only millionaire in U.S. Senate race

By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog

LINCOLN — While Attorney General Jon Bruning has taken a lot of heat for becoming a multimillionaire since entering public office about 15 years ago, financial disclosure reports show his chief critic and Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate is also a millionaire.

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Exclusive: Lincoln Bishop: Sebelius ‘bitter fallen-away Catholic’

By Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog

LINCOLN — Nebraska Watchdog has learned that the Catholic Bishop of Lincoln is bringing politics to the pulpit this week-end, calling out the Obama Administration’s recent move involving birth control and health insurance.

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“Race to the Top” seems to have California running schools like DMV

CalWatchdog
“Race to the Top” federal education funding California just “won” is more like “Race to Control.” Students won’t be helped. Instead, schools will just become more like the DMV.
The grant is just another way to continue expanding the monstrosity that has become of the California education bureaucracy.
“The state was one of nine winners named Friday [...]

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