Sep 08 Carl Malamud: Internet Has Yet to Revolutionize Legal Industry By Hari Sreenivasan Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems, since before there was a movement and conferences devoted to Gov2.0 principles. His most recent focus is Law.gov, a project… Continue reading
Sep 08 RGA Chair Barbour: Democrats Will Flee Obama This Fall Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday that Democrats are running from President Obama "like scalded* dogs," worried that his sagging poll numbers might bring down their campaigns this election year. "If you look at when he goes somewhere,… Continue reading
Sep 08 Health Reform Debate Returns to the Airwaves as Midterms Draw Closer Two months before the midterm elections, there's a bit of deja-vu in the air: a new round of ads are running on health care reform. On Wednesday, former New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, held a news conference… Continue reading
Sep 08 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says By Jenny Marder In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed. No… Continue reading
Sep 08 Do Poll Numbers Portend a 'Wave' Year for Republicans? GOP pollster Glen Bolger told The Hill newspaper Tuesday, "It's a wave year (for the Republicans.) The question is, 'How high is the wave?'" For some context, here are the polling numbers that Political Editor David Chalian discussed… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up By Chris Amico Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. It was one of the first cities… Continue reading
Sep 08 Blair Memoir Stands by Iraq Invasion When American politicians write their memoirs, the strongest emotion they normally evoke is a measure of sympathy for all the trees shredded to convey reams of turgid or evasive prose. Not so for their British counterparts, who settle scores,… Continue reading
Sep 08 President Obama Takes On Boehner President Obama and House minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. File photo/Getty images. It's not often that a House minority leader's schedule can dictate the president's schedule. But that's precisely what is happening Wednesday. White House press secretary Robert… Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch Obama to Unveil Business Tax Cut Plan In President Obama's latest attempt to boost the economy, he plans to propose allowing businesses to write off new capital investments through 2011. However, new polls paint a grim picture for him and congressional Democrats. Political editor David Chalian examines… Continue watching
Sep 07 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly By Chris Amico Two of the most consistent themes at this week's Gov2.0 Summit is that government is bad at making the things it needs and it spends far too much on bad technology. "Think about on a daily basis whether you're… Continue reading