Politics

"Renaud: Business Leaders Have Opening to Sway Voters"
D. Mark Renaud has written this Roll Call oped, which begins: "With 20 days left before this year's general election, time is running out for business leaders and others to have an effect...

GOP leaders to president: Dont pitch us on new spending
The Hill: "Republican leaders signaled Sunday that they won't go for President Obama's expected call for more federal spending in infrastructure, education and innovation initiatives in his State of the Union address...

Transparency, big government, and big business
Thanks, Michael P., for asking about my views regarding transparency. I think that transparency is usually (though not quite always) a good thing in the legislative process. As you rightly suggest, transparency is especially valuable and important in circumstances in...

Government Spending Transparency Databases
The governor of Alabama signed an executive order that creates an online database of all state government spending and legislators’ relationships with lobbyists. This will go online later this year, but many other states have already made available government spending, salary and revenue databases, often in a site dedicated to issues of transparency in government...

"Corporate campaign ads haven't followed Supreme Court's prediction; Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court's landmark ruling; Spending on next week's midterm election has been exorbitant"
"Corporate campaign ads haven't followed Supreme Court's prediction; Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court's landmark ruling; Spending on next week's midterm election has been exorbitant": David G...

TRANSPARENCY! Tracking Stimulus Spending May Not Be as Easy as Promised. To build support for the
TRANSPARENCY! Tracking Stimulus Spending May Not Be as Easy as Promised. “To build support for the stimulus package, President Obama vowed unprecedented transparency, a big part of which, he said, would be allowing taxpayers to track money to the street level on Recovery...

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Express Scripts Inc.
Over $9.5 million payout in deceptive business practices lawsuit.

FedEx
Ground Business Model Wins Class Action in Washington

Business Lawsuit
Elbit Imaging Ltd. agrees to pay CP Holdings Ltd. a $5 million settlement.

Personal Business
Jundts to pay $1.8 million settlement in debts lawsuit.

Tagged.com Sued over Deceptive Business Practices
Tagged.com Faces Potential Class Action