By ANDREW W. GRIFFIN
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY — State Rep. Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City) sent out a press release late last week noting that he had been misquoted in an April 12 Associated Press article.
As Key wrote in a piece headlined “Keep the power in hands of people,”  published by The Tennessean newspaper, Nashville, the [...]

By Steven Allen Adams 
West Virginia Republican Executive Committee Chairman Doug McKinney is causing more controversy, this time in regards to a member of the Executive Committee currently under investigation for prescription fraud.
According to the Associated Press, Dr. Diane Shafer – a member of the West Virginia Republican State Executive Committee since 2006 – is [...]

During his recent speech in Nashua, President Obama drew criticism from Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman for chastising the American people against spending their money in Sin City.
“When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a [...]

Authorities continue to overestimate the number of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus package, according to an independent review conducted by the the Boston Globe.
While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, [...]