The Greensboro News & Record reports that the City Council is considering a proposal to hire a lobbyist. Other North Carolina cities, including High Point, have federal lobbyists. Officials there have credited their roughly $120,000 annual lobbying investment with landing millions in grants and smoothing talks with federal regulators. But at least one Greensboro City […]
Day: January 29, 2010
Liptak on the Alito shake
Justice Alito’s reaction to a portion of President Obama’s State of the Union has sent heads spinning. The Post also has major coverage this morning. And legal experts said they had never seen anything quite like it, a rare and unvarnished showdown between two political branches during what is usually the careful choreography of the […]
Tea Party Convention appearance and ethics rules
Two Members of Congress are apparently citing House Ethics rules as a reason why the cannot attend a Tea Party convention, according to this report.