By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it. Published December 1, 2011 Comments
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC defeated a proposed government takeover bid, but the attempt underscored the depth of concerns in recent weeks at the Justice Department about the roles played by the bankrupt company’s top financial officer and its board of directors. Published October 19, 2011 Comments
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Four years after inspectors found that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service could save tens of millions of dollars by charging Netflix for hand-sorting its DVD mailers, postal executives have refused to make the change. Now, regulators are calling the Postal Service’s treatment of Netflix discriminatory. Published April 26, 2011 Comments
By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, assisted by federal, state and local law enforcement authorities, have seized more than 36,000 phony Super Bowl-related items nationwide along with other counterfeit goods worth $3.56 million — including $554,280 in bogus goods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Published February 4, 2011 Comments
By Manuel Valdes - Associated Press
A small but growing number of Americans are choosing environmentally friendly burials. Published October 17, 2010 Comments
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
The equivalent of about 30 Olympic-sized swimming pools full of sewage spewed into a Chesapeake Bay tributary from a water treatment plant in Savage, Md., as superstorm Sandy swept past the Washington area Monday night. Published November 1, 2012
By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
Each job created with federal stimulus cash through the Obama administration's advanced battery manufacturing program cost more than $158,000 and many of them likely were temporary, according to an analysis released Wednesday by two senior Republicans. Published October 31, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
The recent bankruptcy of battery maker A123 Systems after it won a nearly quarter-billion-dollar federal grant threatens the business prospects of another well-known government-backed company: luxury car manufacturer Fisker Automotive. Published October 31, 2012
By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
The Justice Department has yet to confront widespread management failures in the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation or to order operational changes that would prevent future "disasters" from occurring, two senior Republican lawmakers who first questioned the federal probe said Monday. Published October 29, 2012
By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
Violent crime in the United States rose by 18 percent last year, the first year-to-year increase in nearly two decades, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Published October 17, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Amid a looming labor crisis and push for rate increases, the utility serving the nation's capital has given a big pay raise to the newly hired top lawyer and a $700,000 severance deal that will keep the company's longtime general counsel around for years in a newly created consultant's job, regulatory filings show. Published October 3, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
The former environmental chief for the D.C. government says he was illegally fired after raising concerns to federal regulators about a plan to delay at least part of a massive public works project aimed at reducing water pollution in the District while the city's water utility tests an alternative plan. Published September 30, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Former D.C. Department of the Environment Director Christophe Tulou, before his firing last month, had cautioned the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and local officials about a plan pushed by the District's water utility and backed by Mayor Vincent C. Gray to delay construction of one or more giant underground tunnels aimed at reducing the flow of pollution into the city's dirty rivers, records show. Published September 27, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Not long after the sudden firing of the District's top environmental official, Christophe Tulou, last month, employees from the city's Department of Environment were told to report to a hastily arranged meeting at the D.C. government offices on Fourth Street Northwest. Published September 25, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Government officials blame unfair competition from China for the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, but such concerns didn't stop the federal government from breaking stimulus program rules to use Chinese solar panels atop a federal building housing the offices of a senator, congressman and several agencies. Published September 17, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
A green-energy auto loan program that has come under sharp scrutiny lately from Republicans got an early boost back in 2008 from Rep. Paul Ryan, records show. Published September 9, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
One Amtrak employee spent much of his time in the office sending emails to women he met through a half-dozen online dating sites and claimed overtime pay for hours he spent officiating high school sporting events. Another worker may have received more than $100,000 in bogus overtime, records show. Published September 6, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
A House panel is calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to turn over all records involving a half-million dollar contract funded through President Obama's $831 billion stimulus program that paid for more than 100 commercials on MSNBC touting a "green jobs" initiative. Published August 31, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration's "green training" job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show. Published August 21, 2012
By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times
Nearly a year after members of Congress called for an investigation into the collapse of a Colorado wireless company that went bankrupt after receiving a multimillion-dollar loan package from the George W. Bush administration, a trustee is suing the Obama administration over accusations that officials hastened the wireless firm's collapse. Published August 20, 2012
