No Bid Contracts

Joy Resmovits

Union Letter: Murdoch's Company Should Not Have Access To Student Data

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Education News, Education, Student Data, News of the World Hacking Scandal, United Federation of Teachers, News of the World, Michael Mulgrew, Race to the Top, Joel Klein, Wireless Generation, No-Bid Contracts, Education News

NEW YORK -- New York should drop a $27 million contract with Wireless Generation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned student data tracking company, in light of Ne...

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The Widening Murdoch Scandal and the Wireless No-Bid Contracts

Leonie Haimson | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: State Comptroller Di Napoli, Joel Klein, Rupert Murdoch, No-Bid Contracts, Wireless Generation, Aris, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Questions have been raised surrounding several no-bid contracts that New York intends to award Wireless Generation, the company that Rupert Murdoch bought immediately after Joel Klein announced he would run Murdoch's new online learning division.

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Earmark Rule Changes: Lobbyists Scrambling To Keep Money Flowing

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earmark Ban, Congress, Moratorium, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Non-Profits, House Appropriations Committee, Democrats, House, Senate, Earmarks, Corporations, K Street, No-Bid Contracts, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Jolted by a sudden tightening of the rules, lobbyists and military contractors who have long relied on lucrative earmarks from Congress ...

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Ethics Panel Clears Seven Lawmakers In Probe Of Contracts For Campaign Donors

Washington Post | Paul Kane and Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, John Murtha, Congress, c.w. Bill Young, Bill Young, Norm Dicks, Campaign Fundraising, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Tidd Tiahrt, Fbi, James Morgan, Pma Group, Contracts, Watchdogs, Cw Bill Young Peter J. Visclosky, Earmarks, Peter Visclosky, Marcy Kaptur, Donors, Donations, K Street, No-Bid Contracts, House Ethics Committee, Politics News

The ethics committee decided to clear Visclosky even though the Office of Congressional Ethics, which conducts preliminary reviews, found probable cau...

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Campaign Finance Reform: A Matter of National Security

Bob Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Murtha, Fair Elections Now Act, Fair Elections, Common Cause, Defense, No-Bid Contracts, Earmarks, Transparency, Politics News
Bob Edgar

Our bloated defense budget is another example of how campaign finance skews policy and spending priorities towards those who give the most and often have significant influence.

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Obama's First 100 Days: Restoring the Good Name of the U.S.

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Foreclosures, Green Jobs, Pakistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Lead Paint Toys, Guantanamo, Valerie Plame, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Donnie Walsh, Afghanistan War, Isiah Thomas, Iraq War, Unemployment, 2012 Election, Party of No, 100 Days, Brownie, Obama Budget, Banking Crisis, Financial System, Stem Cell Research, No-Bid Contracts, Consumer Product Safety Commission, New York Knicks, Health Care, Global Warming, Torture, Republicans, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The task awaiting Obama was massive. And yet, there is a rush to decide how he's doing after 100 days. Donnie Walsh gets two years to revive the Knicks, but the president only gets 100 days to fix the country?

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Fourteen Changes Barack Obama Could Make in His First 30 Days

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law Enforcement, Governance, Green Jobs, Financial Aid, Democracy, Policy, Barack Obama, Carbon Neutral, Stephen C. Rose, Businesses, White House, Federal Government, Presidential Records, Tax Filing, Huffington Post, No-Bid Contracts, Health Reform, Flexible Work Schedules, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

If he can infuse the huge federal engine with bite-sized, doable tasks that all link together somehow, he will be a mystery reformer -- a relatively low-key, undramatic force that renews and redirects an ineffective establishment.

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The Bush/McCain Incompetence Taxes

Chuck Lasker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, No Bid Contracts, Taxes, John McCain, Conservatives, Liberals, George W. Bush, Government Spending, Barack Obama, Bush War Tax, Bush Fiscal Conservative, Bush Incompetence, Bush Taxes, Home News
Chuck Lasker

I happily used the "tax and spend liberal" label against Gore and Kerry. I believed that Bush would cut taxes and spending, reduce government, and keep us out of expensive foreign entanglements.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, Donald Rumsfeld, Pepper Spray, Traffic Pollution, VA Chantix, Dick Cheney, Shell Oil, Iraq War Veteran, Childhood Allergies, Peak Oil, Democratic National Convention Denver, Blackwater Iraq, Clean Technology, Ptsd, No-Bid Contracts, Global Warming, Sharia, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

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Ex-Officials Rake In No-Bid Contracts As Watchdogs

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aschcroft No-Bid Contract, Bush Administration, John Ashcroft, Industry Watchdogs, No-Bid Contracts, Politics News

Federal prosecutors are steering no-bid contracts to former government officials who earn millions of dollars by monitoring companies accused of cheat...

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