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Maxine Waters Case: A Political Train Wreck - The headlines proclaim that Rep. Maxine Waters, the outspoken Democrat from California, has been cleared of charges that she violated House ethics by advocating on behalf of a Black bank in…
For the second time this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken strong enforcement steps against deceptive marketing practices. Through CFPB's joint enforcement action with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), more than 3.5 million consumers with…
The U.S. Census Bureau's new poverty data for the states show millions of families struggling mightily to keep their heads above water in the wake of the Great Recession. Fourteen states saw statistically significant increases in their child poverty rates,…
So welcome to Romneyville, an evolving plutocracy where the super-rich have convinced itself by birthright or wealth-right it is their manifest destiny to govern the rest of us by their self-indulgent rules. Through outright insults or innuendoes they clearly…
In late September, the "nonpartisan" Web site Real Clear Politics reported that President Obama leads Republican nominee Mitt Romney is several battleground states. According to the polls, President Obama leads by 5.2 percent in Ohio, 4.5 percent in Virginia,…
The silence is deafening. Last week, the New York Times reported a horrifying measure of America's shame. Life expectancy for white women without a high school degree had decreased by five years since 1990, according to a study in…
During this election, most of the focus is on the top of the ticket. Can President Obama maintain, or increase his narrow lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney? Will the deep pockets of Romney and his allies be enough…
District residents who want to help the city by serving on a local board or commission may not have as many options in the future as others have had in the past. The D.C. Office of Boards and Commissions…
September 22, 2012 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. It was not the decree that ended slavery in the U.S., but its effect, as an executive order, provided that all…
Congratulations Nationals! Let me be one of the first Washington Informer readers to congratulate the Washington Nationals for earning a spot in the post-season. It's something special about having a major league baseball team in the city where you live,…
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's videotaped remark to wealthy supporters that 47 percent of Americans "believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it" and that "my job is not to worry about" people who…
Now that the so-called Arab Spring has sprung, we are beginning to feel the recoil, and it hurts. Who knows how much more it's going to hurt in the next few months or so? All of the countries that…
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