Terry McAuliffe on business ventures: ‘Some work, some don’t’

By   /  April 4, 2013  /  Green Tech Automotive, Virginia Watchblog, WatchBlog  /  No Comments

MISSISSIPPI BOUND: Virginia officials predicted McAuliffe's car-building venture would find itself in a "funding gap."

Part 5 of 20 in the series Terry McAuliffe, gubernatorial candidate and carmogul

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org
FREDERICKSBURG – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe says he’s “proud” of his entrepreneurial background, but acknowledged this week that “some businesses work, some don’t.”
McAuliffe’s statement came in the wake of more questions about his GreenTech Automotive venture in Mississippi. [...]

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WI economic developers fishing for jobs, with fishy jobs numbers

By   /  March 26, 2013  /  Accountability, economic development, Featured, News, Wisconsin  /  2 Comments

WEDC and Workforce Development testify before an Assembly committee Tuesday on the benefits of economic development. But do the agencies' numbers add up?

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON –You’ve heard the old parable on job creation: Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Give a man taxpayer-backed grants, loans or credits, mentorship and networking opportunities and he will eat for life.
That’s the model, it seems, for economic development success everywhere, including Wisconsin, where [...]

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Obamacare gets a ‘C’ for ‘unsustainable’ medical tab

By   /  March 19, 2013  /  anti-trust, Featured, Health Care, News, Virginia  /  No Comments

BAD NEWS: President Obama warns that sequestration will hobble the military and the economy. Does he believe it?

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau
FREDERICKSBURG – Rebutting White House claims that Obamacare will cut medical costs, a new study shows expenses will climb by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress, a market-oriented think tank, gives the Affordable Care Act a C grade for cost containment, saying there is “weak [...]

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Illinois’ green groups split on fracking legislation

By   /  March 12, 2013  /  Illinois, News  /  8 Comments

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SPRINGFIELD — Hydraulic fracturing — fracking as it is known— may, one day, crack apart southern Illinois’ shale deposits. But fracking already has split Illinois’ environmental groups.

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WI lawmaker: Trade group gets fatter at taxpayer expense

By   /  March 1, 2013  /  Accountability, economic development, Featured, News, State Budgets, State Government, State Politics, Wasteful spending, Wisconsin  /  2 Comments

State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater worries manufacturing marketing bills are a giveaway to a trade association.

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — It’s not every day you hear Democratic Rep. Andy Jorgensen, or any Democrat for that matter, thanking Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester.
But it happened Thursday at the Capitol after Jorgensen and Rep. Scott Krug, R – Rome, discussed a pair of bi-partisan bills, legislation they say is aimed [...]

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