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White House Emails Lost in Cyber-Space

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

First published at WashingtonTimes.com If you sent an e-mail to anyone who works in the White House yesterday, you'd be wise to send it again. The e-m...

Rahm Invites Moderate Republicans To White House For Private Meeting

CQ | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


The president's top aide, Rahm Emanuel, has invited a group of moderate Republicans to a private White House meeting Tuesday amid a Democratic push to...

How Obama Plans To Retool His Grass-Roots Network To Help Push White House's Agenda

nytimes.com | JIM RUTENBERG and ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON -- Lyle McIntosh gave everything he could to Barack Obama's Iowa campaign. He helped oversee an army that knocked on doors, distributed fli...

Press: Pool Reports Can't Go On White House Website

Washington Post | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


The new White House web site is expected to display many cool things once it's fully operational (which, currently, it is not). But pool reports -- t...

Obama Faces White House Stuck In Dark Ages Of Technology

Washington Post | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past....

Government 'Of The People, For The People' Returns To America

Diane Tucker | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics


Diane Tucker

Our new president didn't have a powerful father to place him in things, or get him out. He worked hard to become the 44th president. He is of the people, which tends to make a person for the people.

Obama Press Secretary Trying To Figure Out Computer

Politico | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has made a couple of appearances in or near the White House press briefing room in the last couple of hours. Deputy Press...

Sam Stein

Obama Economic Bubble: Inauguration Sparks Sales

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics


Walking around the nation's capital these past few days, one gets the sense that Barack Obama is single-handedly keeping the economy afloat. He's not ...

Obama Open House Set For Day After Inauguration

AP | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Barack Obama plans to open his White House doors to the public on his first full day of his presidency, Jan. 21. Obama aides on Fr...

Obama The Night Owl: Expect Long Hours At The White House

politico.com | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama is bringing back the night-owl presidency. With the metabolism of a White House set by its occupant, Obama's team is preparing for a ret...

Obamas Move Into Blair House, One Step Closer To The White House

nytimes.com | Rachel L. Swarns | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


The Obamas are moving one step closer to the White House. On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move into Blair House, which ...

White House Damage Check

Paula Poundstone | Posted 02.14.2009 | Living


Paula Poundstone

Would you be surprised it they found peep holes drilled in the walls of the master bath or "Tennessee sucks," etched behind the Zachary Taylor portrait? I wouldn't.

Sam Stein

Bill Burton Heading To Obama White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


Bill Burton, Barack Obama's national press secretary during the presidential campaign, will serve as a deputy press secretary in the Obama White House...

Can I Stop Giving Now?

Carine Fabius | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living


Carine Fabius

People are stressed about money. So, why is the president-elect still asking me to send in donations? You got elected. Can you stop asking me to give you money now?

Robert Byrd, Marking 50 Years in Senate, Has Advice for Obama

Steve Kettmann | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics


Steve Kettmann

It wasn't quite like the night at Camden Yards when Cal Ripken became baseball's Iron Man but Byrd nonetheless reached a similarly untouchable milestone yesterday.

Moving the Obamas

Emily Main | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green


Emily Main

Keeping with tradition, Obama will be traveling to the inauguration partly by train, which is one of the greenest ways to travel and to ship freight.

Obama's Moving Day: What Happens At The White House

NYTimes | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style


The Obamas move into the White House on Inauguration Day--the same day the Bushes move out. The whole five-hour procedure is extremely well-choreograp...

Obama's Animal Welfare Team

Michael Markarian | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics


Michael Markarian

Obama has pledged to make progress for animal welfare and environmental stewardship, and we hope these appointees will prove to be an excellent team to help him meet these crucial goals.

Leadership, Strategy, and Experts. More lessons for Obama.

John O'Neil | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


John O'Neil

The nation must boldly rebuild to avoid the perils of a dangerously gyrating world where yesterday's swaggering certainty is tomorrow's worn out wisdom.

White House To Obamas: Sorry, We're Booked

New York Times | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics


The White House has turned down a request from the family of President-elect Barack Obama to move into Blair House in early January so that his daught...

Big Momma Is In The (White) House

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living


Yvonne R. Davis

Analyzed as part of the multi-generational black family, grandmothers have often served as both patriarch and matriarch, guiding the black family through the toils and crises of our time.

Obama and the Reinvention of Democracy

Don Tapscott | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


Don Tapscott

President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.

Whom Will He Choose?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


Martin Carnoy

With government as the investor of last resort, Obama has broad support to implement major changes in the educational, health care, and energy systems using federal money.

Obama, White House At Odds Over Financial Sector Rescue

Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN and DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 01.07.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's transition team is resisting Bush administration overtures to coordinate more on the financial-sector rescue, convinced t...

Obama White House Adds Two More Chicagoans

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago


President-elect Barack Obama added two more Chicagoans to his White House team Friday. Michael Strautmanis, who was Obama's Chief Counsel in the Sen...