J.H. Snider

The public's fixation on a scandal involving negligible waste is misplaced.

On April 2, 2012, the inspector general of the General Services Administration released a report highly critical of GSA management for spending $822,751 on a convention at a Las Vegas hotel for approximately 300 GSA employees. The...

Spectrum has become one of the most valuable natural resources of the 21st century. It is to the Information Age what energy was to the Industrial Age: the scarce natural resource driving innovation and growth. Popularly known as the "public airwaves," it facilitates the wireless communications that are increasingly becoming...

Congress passes legislation including what may prove to be the largest corporate welfare program in humankind's history -- one that involves an "invisible" resource, the public airwaves

This week President Obama is expected to sign into law the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, publically promoted...

On September 22, 2011 the White House launched its We The People petition website, which, in its words, "provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country." On October 26, 2011, the White House...

Why Politico has fallen short in its coverage of spectrum issues.

On October 15, 2011, Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy about the business success and high journalistic ethical...

Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me.

On October 20, 2011, the Free TV and Broadband Coalition held a press conference at the National Press Club announcing its proposed alternative to the incentive spectrum auctions endorsed by President Obama and key members of...

A front page story in the Wall Street Journal, the largest daily circulation newspaper in the United States, ridicules the "we'll-take-any-question politics" of the White House's new We The People petition website. It's a chatty, clever, well-written article; the type of article one would...

Last week I attended the 25th anniversary celebration of the Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. During the opening session Ken Auletta, media reporter for the New Yorker, interviewed Vivek Kundra, former U.S. chief information officer (and currently a Shorenstein Center...

On September 22, 2011, the White House quietly launched the We the People petition website. The White House explained the website as follows:

The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way...

President Obama seeks to finance the American Jobs Act of 2011 by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. But the Act includes a spectrum giveaway worth tens of billions of dollars to some of America's wealthiest and most politically powerful...

2010 marks a historic year for state constitutional conventions (con-cons). On November 2, 2010, four states (Maryland, Michigan, Montana, and Iowa) have referendums on the ballot asking voters whether they want to convene a state con-con. Never before in U.S. history have so many such referendums been on the ballot...