Day: October 9, 2009

Win a dinner with a Nobel Peace Prize winner! And the legal issues of political contest rules

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is holding a contest.  The prize?  Dinner with none other than Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama. Contests run by candidates or political organizations usually have interesting contest rules that reflect legal and political considerations.  Sorry, residents of Rhode Island, per the contest rules you’re not eligible.  (Laws covering […]

Ideas for government agency website URLs

Al Kamen riffs on government website URLs here, in light of the Department of Justice’s new Justice.gov site.  He’s holding a contest to solicit more ideas. A reader suggested that other agencies might want to follow suit. They could adopt catchy names, ones that would normally come to mind when people think about those agencies, […]