Obama Family Plans to Spend Holidays in Hawaii
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – KAPOLEI, HAWAII – President Barack Obama announced on Monday at a campaign fundraiser on Oahu’s Leeward Coast that his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 9, will be returning “shortly” to Hawaii during the Christmas and New Years holiday – and he hopes to join them as well.
“It is [...]
Video: TransCanada to Lawmakers: Route Stays As Is in Nebraska
By Joe Jordan
Nebraska Watchdog
A four and a half hour meeting between state lawmakers and TransCanada was a lot of agreeing to disagree, with company executives refusing to move the controversial route of the Keystone XL pipeline. Nebraska Watchdog’s Joe Jordan reports from Norfolk on the latest last ditch maneuvers.
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Read More>>Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s six-figure security bill includes trip to Bahamas, book promotion events
By Jennifer Pebbles
The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News had the story this weekend about the size of the security detail’s travel bill.
This is the same governor who, during the legislative session earlier this year, tried to keep those bills from ever seeing the light of day.
From the story this weekend:
AUSTIN – At a time when state [...]
Houston School District audit report on alleged threat raises more questions about ‘how things operate around here’
By Mike Cronin and Jennifer Pebbles
Story after story has come out in recent weeks raising questions about how the Houston school district conducts business: Contracts going to friends of trustees; a trustee helping an acquaintance get a six-figure no-bid contract; even questions about why the district paid as much as it did for groundskeeping at schools.
The latest one [...]
