by Elena Schneider | Nov 20, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Six federal agencies may want to hide their report cards after a non-profit group doled out failing grades Tuesday for bad grammatical behavior. A 2010 law requires bureaucrats to write official documents with the public in mind — less jargon, more verbs...
by Elena Schneider | Nov 13, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — While a House-Senate panel negotiated a new budget, Democrats and groups advocating for non-defense discretionary federal spending pressed for a rollback of the across-the-board funding cuts that went into effect in March.
by Elena Schneider | Nov 11, 2013 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has hit a few bumps. A glitch-ridden roll out of the health care law and a sluggish economy has left the Commander-in-Chief with fewer fans. Only two in five Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, according to...
by Elena Schneider | Nov 6, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Texas Comptroller Susan Combs on Tuesday defended a controversial program her office oversees to conserve the state’s threatened dunes sagebrush lizard. The program is intended to protect the land where the lizards live by paying landowners to...
by Elena Schneider | Oct 30, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON — As proponents and opponents continue to await a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline project, U.S. House energy committee members on Tuesday touted legislation that would streamline the cross-border pipeline permitting process. But the Federal...
