Public Campaign Action Fund just released a report on total influence spending by the big oil, coal, and electricity interests for the first half of this year. The report shows that from January 1 to June 30 these companies have put down nearly half a billion dollars on trying to influence members o ...
The same day state Rep. Marie Kirkley-Bey, D-Hartford, received her public campaign finance funds from the state, her Democratic primary opponent's campaign emailed a statement detailing an election complaint it had filed earlier in the day. In the complaint, the treasurer of Abe Giles' campaign all ...
Obama to decline public financingGiving him a cash advantage over his rival, Obama is first modern presidential candidate to decline public financing in a general election. Obama Rejects Public FinancingIf everybody remembers correctly, what Obama pledged to do was sit down and try to come to an agr ...
There were few dry eyes as the Maitree Express entered Bangladesh on a scorching Poila Baisakh afternoon on Monday, 43 years after the last train from India chugged down this route. Cheers went up inside the compartments as hundreds of onlookers lined up on both sides of the tracks broke into applau ...
