By Mikel Chavers, CSG Associate Editor Show Missouri the money. The day President Barack Obama’s pen hit the paper as he signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law Feb. 17, the Show Me State pulled the ripcord on a bridge project that would use money from the stimulus. That bridge ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food-relief policy makes little sense, and, by limiting eligibility, the city reduces the amount of money it receives from Washington....

A number of people have been asking what I thought of President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night. But I don't really want to ride that bitch— when I do stuff like that I know how much it disturbs many of you. So I am just going to suggest you get a copy of the speech, and as you read thos...

Precious public money should focus on investing in a new generation of innovative companies, not on bailing out the losers....

FDR was, of course, a consummate political leader. In one situation, a group came to him urging specific actions in support of a cause in which they deeply believed. He replied: I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it. -- William J. vanden Heuvel, cited by the Franklin & Eleanor Roo...

It was an on again, off again stimulus deal, but it now appears that there is a final compromise. And President Obama weighs in, via a White House press release : I want to thank the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who came together around a hard-fought compromise that will save or create more...

I feel so much a part of the workings of my Government. The President himself wrote me to tell me he needed my help! Below find excerpts from his letter and my extemporaneous comments. Ken – The economic crisis is growing more serious every day, and the time for action has come. Last week, the...

Let me preface this rant with yes, I know we need a bailout.  But… President Obama has promised to make government more open, a task which shouldn’t be too difficult in the computer age where information can be digitized, indexed, and searched with querying assistants like Google.  So ...

You want a good way to waste a lot of time by way of self-tourture? Read all 647 pages of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," brought to you by YOUR 111th Congress! A lot of stuff is floating around in the media about the ridiculousness that is floating around in this $1 TRILLION b...